# 糕

| 糕 | U+7CD5, &#31957; 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 9893$_1$, 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
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 羔 | *kluː |
| 糕 | *kluː |
| 餻 | *kluː |
| 窯 | *luː |
| 溔 | *luːʔ |
Han compound: semantic component 米 ("rice") + phonetic component 羔. It originally indicates any food produced through rice flour, represented by the radical. However, the phonetic component ("lamb", hence an animal prone to be cooked) has a reference to food and cooking as well.

### Pronunciation

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

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): こう (kō)
* Kun: こなもち (konamochi)

## Korean
### Hanja

糕 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

糕: Hán Nôm readings: cao
* cake, pastry, pie

#### References

* Nom Foundation
* ↑ Trần (1999).