高
Meanings
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- 1.high
- 2.tall
- 3.above average
- 4.loud
- 5.your (honorific)
- 1.surname Gao
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Wiktionary
- 1.tall; high
- 2.of high level; above average
- 3.high place
- 4.loud
- 5.altitude
- 6.your
- 7.per-
- 8.a surname, Gao (surname)
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a tall building. Compare 京, which however is not a Kangxi radical. Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-gaw (“head”). Compare with Burmese ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”). However, 元 (OC *ŋon, “head”) instead is more likely to be related to this Proto-Sino-Tibetan root given its significant semantic agreement (Schuessler, 2007). Likely allofams are 喬 (OC *ɡrew, “tall”), and perhaps 浩 (OC *ɡuːʔ, “vast”) (although the vowels do not agree).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
他高。
He is tall.
我恐高。
I'm afraid of heights.
他很高。
He is very tall.
价格高。
Prices are high.
你多高？
How tall are you?
我好高興。
I'm so happy.
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Derived terms
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