Radical 189
Chinese character radical
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Radical 189 or radical tall (高部) meaning "tall" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.
| 高 | |
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Radical 189 (U+2FBC)
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| 高 (U+9AD8) "tall" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | gāo |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄠ |
| Wade–Giles: | kao1 |
| Cantonese Yale: | gou1 |
| Jyutping: | gou1 |
| Japanese Kana: | コウ kō (on'yomi) たか-い taka-i / たか taka / たか-まる taka-maru / たか-める taka-meru (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 고 go |
| Hán-Việt: | cao |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 高い/たかい takai |
| Hangul: | 높을 nopeul |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
高 is also the 191st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
