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高
高
See also: 髙
Translingual
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Alternative forms
Han character
高 (radical 189 高+0, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口月口 (YRBR), four-corner 00227, composition ⿳亠口冋)
- Kangxi radical #189, ⾼ (“tall”).
Derived characters
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
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
高 | |
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| alt. forms | 髙 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 高
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (高) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gou1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kau
- Min Nan (POJ): ko / kau
- Wu (Wiktionary): kau (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄠ
- Wade-Giles: kao1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gau
- IPA (key): /kɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gou1
- Yale: gōu
- Cantonese Pinyin: gou1
- IPA (key): /kou̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kau
- Hakka Romanization System: gau
- Hagfa Pinyim: gau4
- IPA: /ka̯u⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: kau (T1)
- IPA (key): /kɔ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 高 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3726 |
| Phonetic component |
高 |
| Rime group |
宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
髙 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kaːw/ |
Definitions
高
Compounds
Derived terms from 高
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Japanese
Kanji
高
Readings
- Goon: こう (kō)
- Kan’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)
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 高 |
|
たか Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
- Kun'yomi
- (Tokyo) たか [tàkáꜜ] (Odaka - [2])[1][2]
- (Tokyo) たか [táꜜkà] (Atamadaka - [1])[1][2]
- IPA(key): [ta̠ka̠]
Noun
Derived terms
References
- 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- 1 2 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