高, a pictographic character of a tall building, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Some of the characters formed by the phonetic component tall building 高 have the same pronunciation.
京, 亭 and 高 are three pictographic characters that have very similar writing on the Oracle Bone Inscriptions (甲骨文).
Characters formed by the phonetic component tall building 高
稿 搞 镐 篙 缟 槁 禞 藳 槀 暠 with the same pronunciation gǎo
傐 鄗 皜 嚆 薃 滈 with the same pronunciation hào
毃 敲 嵪 with the same pronunciation qiāo
翯 犒 碻 塙 槗 hè kào què què qiao
髚 嵩 藃 髜 歊 髇 qiào sōng xiāo qiǎo xiāo xiāo
稁 燺 with the same pronunciation kǎo
髛 熇 膏 蒿 kāo hè gāo hāo