糕

糕 U+7CD5, 糕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CD5 ← 糔 [U+7CD4] CJK Unified Ideographs 糖 → [U+7CD6]

Translingual

Han character

糕 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+10, 16 strokes, Cangjie input 火木廿土火 (FDTGF), four-corner 9893₁, composition ⿰米羔)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 911, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27069
• Dae Jaweon: page 1338, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3157, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7CD5

Chinese

trad.		糕
simp. #		糕
alternative forms		餻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 糕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (羔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
羔	*kluː
糕	*kluː
餻	*kluː
窯	*luː
溔	*luːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kluː): semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 羔 (OC *kluː, “lamb”) – food made from rice flour. The phonetic component 羔 ("lamb", hence an animal prone to be cooked) may also have a reference to food and cooking as well.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāo (gao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kâu / kô
• Eastern Min (BUC): gŏ̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ko / ko͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): go¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹kau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gao
    • Wade–Giles: kao¹
    • Yale: gāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gau
    • Palladius: гао (gao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gou¹
    • Yale: gōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kâu / kô
    • Hakka Romanization System: gau^ˊ / go^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gau¹ / go¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kau̯²⁴/, /ko²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ko⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Lukang, Yilan, Sanxia, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko
    • Tâi-lô: ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koy
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung, Tainan): /kɤ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Lukang): /ko³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Yilan, Kinmen): /ko⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
    • Tâi-lô: koo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kof
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: go¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ko
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ko³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹kau
    • MiniDict: kau^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹kau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kɔ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: kaw

Rime
Character	糕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古勞切
Baxter	kaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaw/
Li Rong	/kɑu/
Wang Li	/kɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gou1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kluː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	糕
Reading #	1/1
No.	3722
Phonetic component	羔
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	髙
Old Chinese	/*kluː/
Notes	同餻

Definitions

糕

1. cake
2. pudding; paste

Compounds

• 冰糕 (bīnggāo)
• 千層糕 / 千层糕 (qiāncénggāo)
• 太陽糕 / 太阳糕 (tàiyánggāo)
• 山楂糕 (shānzhāgāo)
• 年糕 (niángāo)
• 扒糕 (págāo)
• 梨糕
• 棗糕 / 枣糕
• 槽糕 (cáogāo)
• 海綿蛋糕 / 海绵蛋糕 (hǎimián dàngāo)
• 漏斗蛋糕 (lòudǒu dàngāo)
• 炸糕
• 發糕 / 发糕 (fāgāo)
• 筒仔米糕 (tǒngzǐmǐgāo)
• 粘糕
• 粢飯糕 / 粢饭糕 (cīfàngāo)
• 糕乾 / 糕干 (gāogan)
• 糕元寶 / 糕元宝
• 糕餅 / 糕饼 (gāobǐng)
• 糕點 / 糕点 (gāodiǎn)
• 糟糕 (zāogāo)
• 絲糕 / 丝糕
• 綠豆糕 / 绿豆糕 (lǜdòugāo)
• 花糕 (huāgāo)
• 芙蓉糕
• 茯苓糕
• 蘿蔔糕 / 萝卜糕 (luóbogāo)
• 蛋奶糕
• 蛋糕 (dàngāo)
• 蜜橙糕 (mìchénggāo)
• 蜜糕
• 豬血糕 / 猪血糕 (zhūxuègāo)
• 起司蛋糕 (qǐsī dàngāo)
• 金糕 (jīngāo)
• 金糕紙 / 金糕纸
• 雞卵糕 / 鸡卵糕
• 雪糕 (xuěgāo)
• 雲片糕 / 云片糕 (yúnpiàngāo)
• 馬來糕 / 马来糕 (mǎláigāo)
• 馬拉糕 / 马拉糕 (mǎlāgāo)

Japanese

Kanji

糕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: こなもち (konamochi)

Compounds

• 金(チン)楚(ス)糕(コウ), 珍(チン)楚(ス)糕(コウ) (chinsukō)

Korean

Hanja

糕 (eum 고 (go))

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Vietnamese

Han character

糕: Hán Nôm readings: cao

1. cake, pastry, pie

References

• Nom Foundation