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高潮

gāo cháo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

高潮 (gāo cháo) means "high tide; high water; upsurge; peak of activity; climax (of a story, a competition etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 高潮 means

1. high tide; high water
2. upsurge; peak of activity
3. climax (of a story, a competition etc)
4. to have an orgasm

The characters in 高潮

• 高gāohigh; tall; above average
• 潮cháotide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy

Example sentences

• 我快要到高潮了。
  Wǒ kuàiyào dào gāocháo le.
  I am reaching the climax.
• 哪些原因可能导致男性高潮障碍？
  What can cause orgasm problems in men?
• 你怎么确定你的女朋友没有假装高潮?
  Nǐ zěnme quèdìng nǐ de nǚpéngyou méiyǒu jiǎzhuāng gāocháo?
  How can you be sure your girlfriend isn't faking her orgasms?

Words starting with 高潮

• 高潮迭起gāo cháo dié qǐeach new high point replaced by another; (of a movie etc) one climax after another

Words containing 高潮

• 反高潮fǎn gāo cháoanticlimax
• 性高潮xìng gāo cháoorgasm; climax
• 性交高潮xìng jiāo gāo cháoorgasm
• 性欲高潮xìng yù gāo cháoorgasm
• 兴奋高潮xīng fèn gāo cháopeak of excitement; orgasm

Where 高潮 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gǎng–gē (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gāo cháo correctly.
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