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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Cantonese

Hanzi

高 (Jyutping gou1, Yale gou1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

高 (POJ kau, Guangdong kau¹; kau¹, ko¹ [Hailu, Meixian, Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim gau1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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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 (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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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

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

Adjective

高 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin gāo)

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

Proper noun

高 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin gāo)

1. A surname​.

Compounds

• 高粱
• 高梁
• 高興
• 高跟鞋

References

• "高" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-24.

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Middle Chinese

Han character

高 (*gɑu)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

高 (TLPA ko (ko¹), kau (kau¹))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

高 (cao, sào)