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
trad. (高人一等)		高	人	一	等
simp. ^#(高人一等)		高	人	一	等

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gāorényīděng

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄠㄖㄣˊ ㄧㄉㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gou¹ jan⁴ jat¹ dang²
Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): ko-jîn-it-téng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gāorényīděng [Phonetic: gāorényìděng]
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄠㄖㄣˊ ㄧㄉㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gaorényiděng
  - Wade–Giles: kao¹-jên²-i¹-têng³
  - Yale: gāu-rén-yī-děng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaurenideeng
  - Palladius: гаожэньидэн (gaožɛnʹidɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵⁻⁵⁵ i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ tɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - 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: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko-jîn-it-téng
  - Tâi-lô: ko-jîn-it-tíng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koijin'itdeang
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ ʑin²³⁻³³ it̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪŋ⁴¹/

Idiom

高人一等

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)

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