巴高望上 Save Sign in to save words bāgāowàngshàng ㄅㄚ ㄍㄠ ㄨㄤˋ ㄕㄤˋ to wish for higher status (idiom) to curry favor in the hope of promotion Character by character 巴(bā)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty 高(gāo)surname Gao 望(wàng)full moon 上(shàng)up A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0