高

See also 髙

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 髙

Han character

高 (radical 189 高+0, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口月口 (YRBR), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿳亠口冋)

1. high, tall
2. lofty, elevated

Derived characters

• 喬 膏 稿

References

• KangXi: page 1451, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45313
• Dae Jaweon: page 1979, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4593, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9AD8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

高 (Yale gou1)

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Japanese

Noun

高 (hiragana たか, romaji taka)

1. maximum, the limit
   • 高が知れている
   • 高を括る
   • 高々

Derived terms

• 高い (takai)
• 丈 (take)
• 岳, 嶽 (take)
• 長ける (takeru)

Kanji

高 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: たかい (takai), たかまる (takamaru), たかさ (takasa)

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Korean

Hanja

高
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 고 (revised: go, McCune-Reischauer: ko, Yale: ko)

• Name (hangeul): 높을()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

高 (pinyin gāo (gao1), Wade-Giles kao¹)

Compounds

• 高梁
• 高興
• 高跟鞋

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Middle Chinese

Han character

高 (*gɑu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

高 (cao, sào)