Radical 189

高 髙
188 ⾻ ◄	189	► ⾽ 190
Pinyin :	gāo (= high)
Zhuyin :	ㄍ ㄠ
Hiragana :	た か い takai
Kanji :	高 takai (= high)
Hangul :	높을
Sinocorean :	고
Codepoint :	U + 9AD8 U + 9AD9
Stroke sequence :

Radical 189 , meaning "high", is one of eight traditional radicals in Chinese script , which consist of ten strokes. The variant 髙 is also written with ten lines.

It is extremely rare with two combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary . In the Kangxi dictionary there were still 34 characters under this radical.

The seal script of this radical shows a building with several floors and a pointed roof. In the compound symbol 高 can appear as a bearer of meaning, for example in:

亭 (= pavilion, where the upper part is a reduced character 高)

Far more often, however, 高 functions as a sound carrier in the compound symbol:

篙 (= rod),

膏 (= fat),

稿 (= straw),

槁 (= withered),

搞 (= do, do) and

毫 (= fine hair).

Character combinations ruled by radical 189

Watchtower on the Great Wall , a model for Radical 189

Strokes	character
+ 00	高 髙
+ 02	䯧
+ 03	䯨
+ 04	䯩 髚
+ 05	髛
+ 08	髜
+ 09	䯪
+12	䯫 髝
+13	髞
+15	䯬

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 189 is coded under the code point number 12.220 (U + 2FBC).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 234 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 189  - Graphic representations of Radikal 189

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 189 on page 145