漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
高: tall, high
Also: expensive
- 亠lid(form)
- 口mouth(form)
- 冋(form)
亠, 口 and 冋 are drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 高校生こうこうせいsenior high school student
- 高速道路こうそくどうろhighway
- 高熱こうねつhigh fever
- 高価なこうかなexpensive
- 最高さいこうsupreme
たかいtakai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 高いたかいtall, high, expensive
-だか-daka · kun'yomi
- 円高えんだかstrong yen
- 売上高うりあげだかsales
たかまるtakamaru · kun'yomi
- 高まるたかまるrise [v.i.]
たかめるtakameru · kun'yomi
- 高めるたかめるraise, boost [v.t.]
Also read たか, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A tall building.
Source: Wiktionary, 高 (rev. 93421465), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for height and cost, used to describe everything from tall mountains to the "high" status of a senior official.”
Connections
Also built on 冋
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gāo
Same form: 高 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 高 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 高 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gāo most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.