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高 Gao — a top-40 surname
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| Pinyin | Gao |
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| Strokes | 10 |
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| Commonness | a top-40 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'tall', with notable figures in medicine, poetry and martial arts.
What the character means
Noble, lofty, aspiring
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China92
A very common surname (roughly the top 40 in China).
Easy to write70
10 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Gao Qi — Ming dynasty poet (1336–1374), ranked among the four great poets of his era.
- Gao Shi — Tang dynasty poet famed for frontier-style verse, often paired with Cen Shen. His work reflects the harshness and grandeur of border life.
- Charles Kao — Chinese-born electrical engineer and physicist, known as the father of fiber optics; co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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