高

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

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
10 strokes
Stroke order
高-order.gif

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
alt. forms 髙

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 高
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
高-oracle.svg 高-bronze.svg 高-bigseal.svg 高-seal.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.
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]ˤaw/
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
  2. of high level; above average
  3. loud
  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[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]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  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 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

高 • (go)

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