高山仰止

Chinese

		high mountain; Takayama	look up	to stop; prohibit; till
simp. and trad. (高山仰止)		高山	仰	止

高山仰止，景行行止。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Gāoshān yǎng zhǐ, jǐngxíng xíng zhǐ. [Pinyin]

The high hill is looked up to; The great road is easy to be travelled on.

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.[k]ˤaw s-ŋrar C.ŋaŋʔ təʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kaːw sreːn ŋaŋʔ kjɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	高	山	仰	止
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gāo	shān	yǎng	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ kaw ›	‹ srɛn ›	‹ ngjang^X ›	‹ tsyi^X ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.[k]ˁaw/	/*s-ŋrar/	/*C.ŋaŋʔ/	/*təʔ/
English	high, tall	mountain, hill	lift the face, look up	foot; stop
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

高山仰止

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