In life there are ups and downs.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
高低
height; level; (music) pitch
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
height; level; (music) pitch
02
relative superiority
03
propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低 bùzhīgāodī)
04
no matter what; just; simply (will not..., must... etc)
05
at long last
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 高低 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 高低 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Life is full of ups and downs.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 高低.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 高低.
Directly before
- 中有高低1
- 了高低1
Directly after
- 高低起伏2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 高低
What does 高低 mean in Chinese?
高低 (gāodī) means height; level; (music) pitch.
How do you pronounce 高低?
高低 is pronounced gāodī.
Is 高低 an HSK word?
高低 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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