糕 — Chinese character
糕
gāo
cake, pastry
- Pinyin
- gāo
- Radical
- 119 ⽶ (Rice)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 米 羔
- Formation
- pictophonetic — rice; meaning component 米; sound component 羔
Common words with 糕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 糟糕 | zāo gāo | too bad; how terrible |
| 蛋糕 | dàn gāo | cake; 块 (kuài),个 (gè) |
| 糕点 (糕點) | gāo diǎn | cakes; pastries |
| 雪糕 | xuě gāo | ice cream bar; ice cream popsicle |
| 年糕 | nián gāo | nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour |
| 糕饼 (糕餅) | gāo bǐng | cakes; pastries |
| 松糕 (鬆糕) | sōng gāo | steamed rice cake made from glutinous rice flour, soft and fluffy in texture |
| 切糕 | qiē gāo | traditional Xinjiang sweet walnut cake |
| 炸糕 | zhá gāo | fried glutinous rice dough cake |
| 冰糕 | bīng gāo | ice-cream; popsicle |
| 发糕 (發糕) | fā gāo | fa gao, a type of steamed sponge cake, usu. sweetened, commonly consumed at Chinese New Year |
| 松糕鞋 (鬆糕鞋) | sōng gāo xié | platform shoes |
English words written with 糕
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.