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杲

gǎo

Character

What 杲 means

1. high
2. sun shines brightly
3. to shine

Characters built on 日

These share the phonetic component 日 (rì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 早zǎoearly; morning; Good morning!
• 暴bàosudden; violent; cruel
• 曝bàoused in 曝光; Taiwan pr. pù
• 昭zhāobright; clear; manifest
• 曹cáoclass or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old)
• 昊hàovast and limitless; the vast sky
• 曜yàobright; glorious; one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy
• 昴mǎothe Pleiades

Sounds the same

Read gǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 搞to do; to make; to go in for
• 稿manuscript; draft; stalk of grain
• 镐a pick
• 缟plain white silk
• 槁dried up (wood); dead tree
• 暠bright; white
• 藁variant of 槁
• 藳old variant of 稿