登高

Chinese

		to go up; to climb; ascend to go up; to climb; ascend; mount; register; note; to publish; to issue; to record	high; tall
simp. and trad. (登高)		登	高
anagram		高登

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dēnggāo

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄥ ㄍㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dang¹ gou¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): teng-ko͘ / teng-ko

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dēnggāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄥ ㄍㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: denggao
    • Wade–Giles: têng¹-kao¹
    • Yale: dēng-gāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: denggau
    • Palladius: дэнгао (dɛngao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵ kɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dang¹ gou¹
    • Yale: dāng gōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dang¹ gou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: deng¹ gou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ⁵⁵ kou̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-ko͘
    • Tâi-lô: ting-koo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dengkof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ³³ kɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-ko
    • Tâi-lô: ting-ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dengkoy
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ko⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tong kaw

Rime
Character	登	高
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	登 (129)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	都滕切	古勞切
Baxter	tong	kaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/təŋ/	/kɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/təŋ/	/kɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/təŋ/	/kɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təŋ/	/kaw/
Li Rong	/təŋ/	/kɑu/
Wang Li	/təŋ/	/kɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/təŋ/	/kɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dēng	gāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dang1	gou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤəŋ  Cə.[k]ˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tɯːŋ  kaːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	登	高
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dēng	gāo
Middle Chinese	‹ tong ›	‹ kaw ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁəŋ/	/*Cə.[k]ˁaw/
English	ascend	high, tall
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	登	高
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2169	3726
Phonetic component	登	高
Rime group	蒸	宵
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime		髙
Old Chinese	/*tɯːŋ/	/*kaːw/

Verb

登高

1. to climb; to ascend
2. to climb a mountain

Synonyms

• (to climb): 升高 (shēnggāo)
• (to climb a mountain):

• 健行 (jiànxíng) (Taiwan)
• 山行 (shānxíng) (literary)
• 爬山 (páshān)
• 登山 (dēngshān)
• 行山 (haang⁴ saan¹) (Cantonese, literary)
• 𬦰山 (Hokkien)