高潮

Chinese

high; tall
 
tide; current; damp; moist; humid
simp. and trad.
(高潮)		 高 潮

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 高 (こう)潮 (ちょう) (kōchō, “climax”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 高潮 (“high tide”).

Pronunciation

Noun

高潮

  1. (oceanography) high tide; high water (Classifier: 個／个; 次)
    高潮時你不能在這個海灘散步。 [MSC, trad.]
    高潮时你不能在这个海滩散步。 [MSC, simp.]
    Gāocháo shí nǐ bùnéng zài zhège hǎitān sànbù. [Pinyin]
    You can't walk along this beach at high tide.
  2. climax; major development (Classifier: 個／个; 次)
    第五場是全劇的高潮。 [MSC, trad.]
    第五场是全剧的高潮。 [MSC, simp.]
    Dì wǔ chǎng shì quán jù de gāocháo. [Pinyin]
    The fifth scene was the climax of the play.
  3. orgasm (Classifier: 個／个; 次)
  4. upsurge (Classifier: 個／个; 次)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
高 潮
たか
Grade: 2		 しお
Grade: 6
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
高 潮
こう
Grade: 2		 ちょう
Grade: 6
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

高潮 (hiragana こうちょう, rōmaji kōchō, historical hiragana かうてう) (alternative reading hiragana たかしお, romaji takashio, historical hiragana たかしほ)

  1. climax
  2. (oceanography) high tide

Derived terms

  • 高潮警報 (たかしおけいほう) (takashiokeihō, “takashiokeihō”): high tide warning

Descendants

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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