高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高超
gāochāo
superb, excellent
Characters in this word
超 chāo
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 走 — to walk, to run, to flee
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他的修复技术十分高超，几乎看不出瓷器曾经碎过。 Tā de xiūfù jìshù shífēn gāochāo, jīhū kàn bù chū cíqì céngjīng suì guò. His restoration skill is so superb that one can hardly tell the porcelain was ever broken.
- 这位厨师的刀工十分高超，土豆丝切得又细又匀。 Zhè wèi chúshī de dāogōng shífēn gāochāo, tǔdòusī qiē de yòu xì yòu yún. This chef's knife skills are superb, and the potato shreds are cut thin and even.
- 他的琴艺高超，台下的观众听得入了迷。 Tā de qínyì gāochāo, tái xià de guānzhòng tīng de rù le mí. His skill on the instrument is superb, and the audience below the stage listened spellbound.