高

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See also: 髙
高 U+9AD8, 高
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AD8
← 髗
[U+9AD7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 髙 →
[U+9AD9]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
10 strokes
Stroke order
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Alternative forms[edit]

Han character[edit]

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Radical 189 高

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

  1. Kangxi radical #189, ⾼.

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 高
variant forms 髙
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• 高

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 高
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
高-bronze-shang.svg 高-oracle.svg 高-bronze.svg 高-bronze-spring.svg 高-bronze-warring.svg 高-silk.svg 高-slip.svg 高-seal.svg 高-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (高) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
高 *kaːw
膏 *kaːw, *kaːws
篙 *kaːw
稿 *kaːwʔ
稾 *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁 *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞 *kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠 *kaːwʔ
槀 *kaːwʔ
藁 *kaːwʔ
燺 *kʰaːwʔ
薧 *kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒 *kʰaːws
蒿 *qʰaːw
藃 *qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪 *ɡaːw
毫 *ɡaːw
壕 *ɡaːw
濠 *ɡaːw
鎬 *ɡaːwʔ
滈 *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗 *ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝 *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃 *ɡaːwʔ
搞 *kruːʔ
敲 *kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇 *qʰraːw
嗃 *qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐 *kʰl'awʔ
歊 *qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞 *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇 *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻 *kʰraːwɢ
塙 *kʰraːwɢ
毃 *kʰraːwɢ
翯 *qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥 *qʰraːwɢ

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • kau - vernacular;
  • ko/ko͘ - literary.
  • Wu
    • Rime
    Character 高
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 見 (28)
    Final (韻) 豪 (89)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 古勞切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/kɑu/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/kɑu/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/kɑu/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/kaw/
    Li
    Rong         		/kɑu/
    Wang
    Li         		/kɑu/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/kɑu/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		gāo
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 高
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		gāo
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ kaw ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*Cə.[k]ˁaw/
    English 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 高
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 3726
    Phonetic
    component         		高
    Rime
    group         		宵
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		髙
    Old
    Chinese         		/*kaːw/

    Definitions[edit]

    高

    1. tall; high
      這座山特別高。 / 这座山特别高。  ―  Zhè zuò shān tèbié gāo.  ―  This mountain is especially tall.
      生得高嘅女仔 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
      saang1 dak1 gou1 ge3 neoi5 zai2 [Jyutping]
      a tall girl
      唔好擺得咁高啦。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      唔好摆得咁高啦。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      M4 hou2 baai2 dak1 gam3 gou1 laa1. [Jyutping]
      Put it somewhere lower.
    2. of high level; above average
      很高的價格 / 很高的价格  ―  hěn gāo de jiàgé  ―  high price
      高糖量  ―  gāo tángliàng  ―  high sugar content
      高血壓 / 高血压  ―  gāoxuèyā  ―  high blood sugar
      很高的標準 / 很高的标准  ―  hěn gāo de biāozhǔn  ―  high standard
    3. loud
      高歌  ―  gāogē  ―  to sing loudly
    4. (honorific) your
    5. A surname​.

    Synonyms[edit]

    Dialectal synonyms of 高 (“tall; high”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 高
    Mandarin Beijing 高
    Taiwan 高
    Jinan 高
    Xi'an 高
    Wuhan 高、長 †
    Chengdu 高
    Yangzhou 高
    Hefei 高
    Cantonese Guangzhou 高
    Hong Kong 高
    Taishan 高
    Yangjiang 高
    Gan Nanchang 高、猛 †
    Hakka Meixian 高
    Changting 高
    Wuping 高
    Liancheng 高
    Ninghua 高
    Jin Taiyuan 高
    Min Bei Jian'ou 高
    Min Dong Fuzhou 懸
    Fuqing 懸
    Matsu 懸
    Min Nan Xiamen 懸、躼 †
    Quanzhou 懸、躼 †
    Zhangzhou 懸、躼 †
    Taipei 懸、躼 †
    Kaohsiung 懸、躼 †
    Tainan 懸、躼 †
    Taichung 懸
    Hsinchu 懸
    Lukang 懸、躼 †
    Sanxia 懸、躼 †
    Yilan 懸、躼 †
    Kinmen 懸
    Magong 懸
    Penang 懸
    Singapore 懸
    Chaozhou 懸
    Shantou 懸
    Puxian Min Putian 懸
    Xianyou 懸
    Wu Suzhou 高、長 †
    Wenzhou 高、長 †
    Xiang Changsha 高、上
    Shuangfeng 高、長 †
    Note † - of a person's height

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 高

    Japanese[edit]

    Alternative forms[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    高

    (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. tall
    2. high

    Readings[edit]

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    高
    たか
    Grade: 2
    kun’yomi

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    高 (hiragana たか, rōmaji taka)

    1. maximum, the limit
    Derived terms[edit]

    Etymology 2[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    高
    こう
    Grade: 2
    on’yomi

    Prefix[edit]

    高 (hiragana こう, rōmaji kō-)[3]

    1. high, higher
      高学歴 (こうがくれき)
      kō-gakureki
      high academic achievement; higher education

    References[edit]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
    3. ^ Yoshiro Kojima, Shigeru Takebayashi, Keisuke Nakao, and Hideo Masuda, editors (2005) Luminous Japanese-English Dictionary, second edition, Kenkyusha

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    高 • (go)

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    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    高 (cao, sào)

    1. high, tall

    Compounds[edit]

    Usage notes[edit]

    • Chữ Nôm. The modern equivalent is cao.

    References[edit]

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