高

See also: 髙

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) A picture of a building. compare to 京.

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		高

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāo (gao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kau
• Min Nan (POJ): ko / kau
• Wu (WT Romanisation): kau (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: kao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gau
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gou¹
    • Yale: gōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kou̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kau
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /ka̯u⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko / kau
    • Tâi-lô: ko / kau
    • IPA (Taipei): /kə⁴⁴/, /kaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kə³⁴/, /kaʊ³⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: kau (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /kɔ⁵³/

Old Chinese pronunciation (高, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
高								gāo								‹ kaw ›								/*Cə.[k]ˤaw/								high, tall
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
高					3726					高					宵					1					髙					/*kaːw/

Definitions

高

1. tall, high
2. of high level, above average
3. loud
4. (honorific) your
5. A surname​.

Compounds

Derived terms

• 高樑／高梁

• 高粱

• 高興／高兴

• 高跟鞋

References

• (Mandarin) "高" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-24.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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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)

1. tall
2. high

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

高 (go)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 높을()

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Middle Chinese

Han character

高 (*gɑu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

高 (cao, sào)

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