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篙

gāo

Character

What 篙 means

1. pole for punting boats

Words starting with 篙

• 篙子gāo zipole for punting boats; pole for drying clothes in the sun

Words containing 篙

• 竹篙zhú gāobamboo pole (used to punt a boat)
• 船篙chuán gāopole used for punting a boat

Characters built on 高

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

• 搞gǎoto do; to make; to go in for
• 稿gǎomanuscript; draft; stalk of grain
• 膏gāoointment; paste
• 蒿hāocelery wormwood (Artemisia carvifolia); to give off; to weed
• 犒kàoto reward or comfort with presents of food, drink etc
• 镐gǎoa pick
• 缟gǎoplain white silk
• 槁gǎodried up (wood); dead tree

Sounds the same

Read gāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 高high; tall; above average
• 糕cake
• 膏ointment; paste
• 皋bank; marsh
• 羔lamb
• 睾(bound form) testicle
• 鼛large drum
• 槔used in 桔槔
• 櫜weapon case
• 髙variant of 高
• 槹variant of 槔