高雄

Gāoxióng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Kaohsiung, special municipality in southern Taiwan
2 second-largest city in Taiwan, major port

Characters

hero, male, mighty

Examples

HSK 5

我们在高雄待了三天。

Wǒmen zài Gāoxióng dāi le sān tiān.

We stayed in Kaohsiung for three days.

HSK 6

高雄是台湾最大的港口城市。

Gāoxióng shì Táiwān zuì dà de gǎngkǒu chéngshì.

Kaohsiung is Taiwan's largest port city.

Tips

history

Original Austronesian name was 'Takao'. During Japanese rule (1895-1945), 'Takao' was re-spelled with the Japanese characters 高雄 ('high hero'), pronounced Takao in Japanese. After 1945 the Mandarin reading Gāoxióng stuck. The older romanization 'Kaohsiung' uses Wade-Giles.

Stroke Order

高 gāo

雄 xióng