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Meaning of 槁

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(Trad.: 槀, 槁)
Pinyin: gǎo
English Definition: dried up (wood); dead tree; variant of ; dried up
Chinese Definition:
①枯干:槁木。枯槁。槁悴。槁木死灰(喻心情冷漠,对一切事情无动于衷)。
②古同“藁”,草。
Total strokes: 14; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (tree) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] tree; wood, lumber; wooden
    • [ gāo ] tall, lofty; high, elevated
Similar Characters: 稿
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Example Words
枯槁 gǎo withered; haggard; languid; without energy
槁项黄馘 gǎo xiàng huáng guó withered neck and yellow face (idiom)
憔悴枯槁 qiáo cuì gǎo haggard from anxiety (idiom)
形如槁木 xíng gǎo thin and emaciated (idiom)
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Example Sentences
1
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
2
You can have it all, just not at the same time.
3
He was going away from them, his pitiful, dishonored children that were welcome nowhere.
4
The mask looked like the face of a withered old man with stringy white hair, so that I must have looked like an undertaker.
5
The counterfeiters duplicated and sold phonograph records of famous artists, packaging everything so skillfully they were never caught.