The 高 family
高 · gāo · ㄍㄠ — high
Know 高 and the readings of 8 more characters follow: 搞、喬、毫、豪、敲、稿、膏、縞. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 搞gǎo · ㄍㄠˇ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto do; to make81%
- 喬qiáo · ㄑㄧㄠˊ部首 口 · mouthtall, lofty; proud, stately58%
- 毫háo · ㄏㄠˊ部首 毛 · hairhair; drawing brush67%
- 豪háo · ㄏㄠˊ部首 豕 · hoggrand; heroic67%
- 敲qiāo · ㄑㄧㄠ部首 攴 · striketo hit; to strike58%
- 稿gǎo · ㄍㄠˇ部首 禾 · grain plantmanuscript; draft81%
- 膏gāo · ㄍㄠ部首 肉 · meatointment; paste90%
- 縞gǎo · ㄍㄠˇ部首 糹 絞絲旁 · fine silkplain white silk81%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 高 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 高 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 73%.
Words this family builds
- 高興
- 搞定
- 喬治
- 高中
- 搞砸
- 最高
- 高度
- 搞笑
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