高调 (高調) gāotiáo

gāotiáo noun high-sounding speech; bombast; high-profile
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '高調')

Contained in

• 唱高调(唱高調) to sing the high part; to speak fine sounding but empty words (idiom)
• 唱高调儿(唱高調兒) to sing the high part

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二百二十四 列傳第一百十二 嚴清 宋纁 陸光祖 孫鑨 陳有年 孫丕揚 蔡國珍 楊時喬 Volume 224 Biographies 112: Yan Qing, Song Xun, Lu Guangzu, Sun Long, Chen Younian, Sun Piyang, Cai Guozhen, Yang Shiqiao History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 卷四十七 Scroll 47 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1

Collocations

• 钟高调 (鐘高調) 號鍾高調 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十八 Scroll 18 — count: 2