高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高昂
gāo'áng
high; expensive; uplifted
Characters in this word
昂 áng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- Made of
- 日 sun 卬 lofty
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 核心零部件依赖进口，导致整套设备的维护成本十分高昂。 Héxīn língbùjiàn yīlài jìnkǒu, dǎozhì zhěng tào shèbèi de wéihù chéngběn shífēn gāo'áng. The core components rely on imports, causing the maintenance cost of the whole set of equipment to be extremely high.
- 这里的房租十分高昂，年轻人很难负担。 Zhèlǐ de fángzū shífēn gāo'áng, niánqīngrén hěn nán fùdān. The rent here is extremely high and young people can hardly afford it.
- 比赛前，队员们的士气高昂，每个人都充满信心。 Bǐsài qián, duìyuánmen de shìqì gāo'áng, měi ge rén dōu chōngmǎn xìnxīn. Before the match the players' morale was high and everyone was full of confidence.