餻

Information about character(s)

Radical: 食
Radical Strokes: 9
Additional Strokes: 10
Total Strokes: 18
Variants: 糕

Pronunciation

Pinyin: gāo
Cantonese: gou1
JapaneseKun: KONAMOCHI
JapaneseOn: KOU

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: cakes, pastry

CE-Dict: variant of 糕, cake

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《食部》餻餌屬。从食羔聲。

康熙字典文字版 【戌集下】【食字部】餻
【廣韻】古勞切【集韻】【韻會】居勞切【正韻】姑勞切，𠀤音高。【玉篇】餻糜。【博雅】餻，餌也。【揚子·方言】餌謂之餻。【集韻】作糕。別作𩝝。◎按《說文》作餻。《字彙》沿俗，省作餻，附十畫，非。
考證：〔【博雅】饔餻，餌也。〕　謹按原文孰食謂之饔爲句，餻䭣𩚹餣〈飠亢〉餌也爲句，饔字不屬下讀，今省去饔字。