Chinese symbol for “aloft”
高高在上
gāo gāo zài shàng
(idiom) situated high; aloft; (idiom) (fig.) aloof and remote; situated above the masses and out of touch with reality
The closest CC-CEDICT match for aloft is 高高在上 (gāo gāo zài shàng), defined as: (idiom) situated high; aloft; (idiom) (fig.) aloof and remote; situated above the masses and out of touch with reality.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 高高在上.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 最高 | zuì gāo | tallest; highest |
| 提高 | tí gāo | to raise; to increase |
| 高兴 (高興) | gāo xìng | happy; glad |
| 高级 (高級) | gāo jí | high level; high grade |
| 高度 | gāo dù | height; altitude |
| 高中 | gāo zhōng | senior high school (abbr. for 高级中学 (gāo jí zhōng xué)) |
| 现在 (現在) | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 存在 | cún zài | to exist; to be |
| 以上 | yǐ shàng | that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned |
See also: Japanese symbol for “aloft”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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