(gāo) - cake; bad (only in 糟糕) in Mandarin
gāoTraditional: 糕
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Translation
cake; bad (only in 糟糕)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the rice radical 米 on the left marks it as a food made from grain, and 羔 (gao, lamb) supplies the sound, giving the word for cake. It also appears in 糟糕 (zaogao), meaning a mess.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 米 (rice radical) + 羔 (gao, phonetic)
Stroke order
糕
Examples
，雨！
Oh no, it is raining!
。
I like eating cake.
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This cake is delicious.
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The cake my grandmother makes is especially fragrant.
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The rice cake my mum made is delicious.
糕 (gāo) means cake, as in 蛋糕 (dàngāo); it also pairs with 糟 in the exclamation 糟糕 (zāogāo).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 糕.
Used in
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