A name from a poem
登高
Pinyin dēng gāousually a boy’s name
Climb higher — the wider view is waiting above.
What’s wished for
On Double Ninth, climbing high — Wang Wei missing brothers in the east. Family in the heart, and a will to go higher.
Where it comes from
遥知兄弟登高处
yáo zhī xiōng dì dēng gāo chù
“I know my brothers would, with dogwood spray in hand,”
— Wang Wei, “Thinking of My Brothers on the Double Ninth” (九月九日忆山东兄弟)
About the two characters
- 登
- to climb; to go upward
- 高
- high; a place you look up to
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