Character: 皋
Modern (Beijing) reading: gāo
Preclassic Old Chinese: kū
Classic Old Chinese: kū
Western Han Chinese: kǝ̄w
Eastern Han Chinese: kǝ̄w
Early Postclassic Chinese: kǝ̄w
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kāw
Late Postclassic Chinese: kāw
Middle Chinese: kâw
English meaning : marsh, swamp
Russian meaning[s]: 1) низина, луговина; 2) берег; излучина реки; 3) 5-й лунный месяц
Comments: Also used for homonymous *kū 'be high' (a variant of 高 *kāw ?) and *kū 'be lazy'. During Late Zhou used also for *kū 'shore' and *g(h)ū (MC ɣâw, FQ JY 乎刀, Pek. háo) 'to announce, cry out' ( = 嗥). The meaning 'marsh', although attested already in Shijing, is absent from Schüssler's dictionary.
Radical: 132
Four-angle index: 2322
Karlgren code: 1040 a-b
Go-on: kau
Kan-on: kau
Japanese reading: kō;sawa;kishi;takai;satsuki
