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Chinese symbol for “highly”

高度
gāo dù
height; altitude; elevation; high degree

The closest CC-CEDICT match for highly is 高度 (gāo dù), defined as: height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; 个 (gè).

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Characters and stroke order

高 gāo
tall, lofty; high, elevated
radical 189 ⾼ · 10 strokes
度 dù
degree, system; manner; to consider
radical 53 ⼴ · 9 strokes

Other Chinese words for “highly”

WordPinyinMeaning
逴chuòapparent; distant

Related words

Other words that share a character with 高度.

WordPinyinMeaning
最高zuì gāotallest; highest
提高tí gāoto raise; to increase
高兴 (高興)gāo xìnghappy; glad
高级 (高級)gāo jíhigh level; high grade
高中gāo zhōngsenior high school (abbr. for 高级中学 (gāo jí zhōng xué))
制度zhì dùsystem (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution
程度chéng dùdegree; level; extent
态度 (態度)tài dumanner; bearing

See also: Japanese symbol for “highly”.

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.