高鹗

高鶚
Gāo È
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Gao E (c. 1738–c. 1815), Qing scholar traditionally credited with the last forty chapters of Dream of the Red Chamber

Examples

HSK 7-9
Gāo È shì Qīngdài wénrén, kǎozhòng guo jìnshì.
Gao E was a Qing man of letters who passed the highest imperial examination.
HSK 7-9
Guòqù de shū shàng dōu shuō, 《 Hónglóumèng 》 de zuìhòu sìshí huí shì Gāo È xùxiě de.
Older books all say that the last forty chapters of Dream of the Red Chamber were written by Gao E as a continuation.

Tips

history
With the bookseller 程伟元 he brought out the first printed 120-chapter edition in 1791. Scholars now doubt that he wrote the ending himself, and since 2008 the standard mainland edition credits the last forty chapters to an unknown author, edited by Cheng and Gao.

Stroke Order

高 gāo
鹗 è