Character Details
| tall; high | Ascii: 21608 | w511 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 高 | gāo | gowe | 1 | 亠 (lid) + 口 (mouth) + 冂 (box) + 口 (mouth) → tall | 高 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Two little aliens in a trenchcoat and top hat, trying to look TALL. The bottom one, in the glass helmet, is under the coat. The top one has his top hat pulled down in disguise, so all you can see is his mouth. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - He is tall and handsome | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 201 - 韦 | wéi | bone | tanned leather | tanned hide | 违 韦 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 亠 (lid) + 口 (mouth) + 冂 (box) + 口 (mouth) → tall | 高 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||