Radical 189

高
← 188 Radical 189 (U+2FBC) 190 →
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
Stroke order animation

Radical 189 or radical tall (高部) meaning "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.

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

Strokes	Characters
+0	高 髙 (=高)
+4	髚
+5	髛
+8	髜
+12	髝
+13	髞

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]

References

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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