高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高贵
gāoguì
noble; honourable; elegant
Characters in this word
贵 guì
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 真正的高贵不在于出身，而在于一个人面对弱者时是否仍然保持尊重。 Zhēnzhèng de gāoguì bú zài yú chūshēn, ér zài yú yí ge rén miànduì ruòzhě shí shìfǒu réngrán bǎochí zūnzhòng. True nobility lies not in birth, but in whether a person still shows respect when facing the weak.
- 她穿着一件深紫色的长裙，看上去非常高贵。 Tā chuān zhe yí jiàn shēn zǐsè de chángqún, kàn shàngqu fēicháng gāoguì. She wore a long dark purple dress and looked very elegant.
- 白天鹅在湖面上缓缓游过，姿态高贵又安静。 Bái tiān'é zài húmiàn shàng huǎnhuǎn yóu guò, zītài gāoguì yòu ānjìng. The white swan glides slowly across the lake, graceful and calm.