Radical 189

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{redirect|高|the surname|Gao (surname)}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|189|uni=9AD8

|meaning= tall

|pny= gāo

|bopo= ㄍㄠ

|wade= kao1

|jyutping= gou1

|yale= gou1

|cn=

|onyomi= コウ kō

|kunyomi= たか-い taka-i / たか taka / たか-まる taka-maru / たか-める taka-meru

|jp= 高い/たかい takai

|hang= 높을 nopeul

|hanja= 고 go

|hanviet= cao

}}

Radical 189 or radical tall ({{Lang|zh-Hant|高部}}) meaning "{{Linktext|tall}}" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|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

File:高-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:高-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:高-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:高-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

+0style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|高}} {{Linktext|髙}} (=高)
+4style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|髚}}
+5style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|髛}}
+8style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|髜}}
+12style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|髝}}
+13style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|髞}}

{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/高}}

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.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a second grade kanji.

References

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Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}