高人一等

高人一等

Chinese

		high; tall	man; person; people	one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	class; rank; grade class; rank; grade; equal to; same as; wait for; await; et cetera; and so on
simp. and trad. (高人一等)		高	人	一	等

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāorényīděng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠ ㄖㄣˊ ㄧ ㄉㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou¹ jan⁴ jat¹ dang²
• Min Nan (POJ): ko-jîn-it-téng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gāorényīděng [Phonetic: gāorényìděng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠ ㄖㄣˊ ㄧ ㄉㄥˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaurenideeng
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gaorényiděng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵ i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ tɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gou¹ jan⁴ jat¹ dang²
    • Yale: gōu yàhn yāt dáng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou¹ jan⁴ jat⁷ dang²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gou¹ yen⁴ yed¹ deng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯⁵⁵ jɐn²¹ jɐt̚⁵ tɐŋ³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko-jîn-it-téng
    • Tâi-lô: ko-jîn-it-tíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koijin'itdeang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ko⁴⁴⁻²² d͡ʑin²⁴⁻²² it̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ko³³ d͡ʑin²⁴⁻²² it̚⁵⁻²⁴ tiɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ko⁴⁴⁻²² d͡ʑin¹³⁻²² it̚³²⁻⁵ tiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ko⁴⁴⁻³³ d͡ʑin²⁴⁻¹¹ it̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ ʑin²³⁻³³ it̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪŋ⁴¹/

Idiom

高人一等

1. to be superior to others; to be a head taller than others

   • 我們只有使自己操練得高人一等，才有戰略勝利的可能。 [MSC, trad.]
     我们只有使自己操练得高人一等，才有战略胜利的可能。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wǒmen zhǐyǒu shǐ zìjǐ cāoliàn de gāorényīděng, cái yǒu zhànlüè shènglì de kěnéng. [Pinyin]

     Only when we have trained ourselves to be a head taller than the enemy will strategic victories be possible.

Antonyms

• 低人一等 (dīrényīděng)