高密

Chinese

		high; tall	secret; confidential; close secret; confidential; close; thick; dense
simp. and trad. (高密)		高	密

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāomì

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠ ㄇㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou¹ mat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gāomì
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠ ㄇㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gaomì
    • Wade–Giles: kao¹-mi⁴
    • Yale: gāu-mì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaumih
    • Palladius: гаоми (gaomi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ mi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gou¹ mat⁶
    • Yale: gōu maht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou¹ mat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gou¹ med⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯⁵⁵ mɐt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: kaw mit

Rime
Character	高	密
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	質 (49)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	古勞切	美畢切
Baxter	kaw	mit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑu/	/mˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑu/	/mᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑu/	/miet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaw/	/mjit̚/
Li Rong	/kɑu/	/mjĕt̚/
Wang Li	/kɑu/	/mĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɑu/	/mi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gāo	mì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gou1	mat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.[k]ˤaw  mri[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːw  mriɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	高	密
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gāo	mì
Middle Chinese	‹ kaw ›	‹ mit ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.[k]ˁaw/	/*mri[t]/
English	high, tall	dense
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	密
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3726	591
Phonetic component	高	必
Rime group	宵	質
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	髙	密
Old Chinese	/*kaːw/	/*mriɡ/

Adjective

高密

1. top-secret
2. (Classical) tall

Noun

高密

1. high density

Proper noun

高密

1. (～市) Gaomi (a county-level city in Weifang, Shandong, China)