- 登高望远 dēnggāowàngyuǎn to climb high and see farto ascend to a height to gain a wide and distant view
- 登高一呼 dēnggāoyīhū to make a clarion callto make a public appeal for action; to take the lead in calling for support or calling for others to follow
- 登高自卑 dēnggāozìbēi to start from the bottomclimb high by starting from the bottom; metaphor for making progress in an orderly way, moving from the simple to the complex or from the shallow to the deep
- 登高必跌重 dēnggāobìdiēzhòng the higher up, the harder the fallThe more ambition or status one gains, the more disastrous one's eventual failure or downfall will be.
- 登高会 dēnggāohuì Double Ninth Festival gatheringa traditional gathering held on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month for climbing mountains and drinking together
- 登高节 dēnggāojié Double Ninth FestivalTraditional Chinese festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, characterized by mountain climbing and chrysanthemum viewing.
- 重九登高 chóngjiǔdēnggāo to climb high on the Double Ninth FestivalA custom of climbing mountains, wearing dogwood, and drinking chrysanthemum wine on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month to ward off evil spirits; also called [[重阳登高|重陽登高|chong2 yang2 deng1 gao1]]
- 重阳登高 chóngyángdēnggāo to climb high on the Double Ninth Festivalto go mountain climbing on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month in order to ward off evil spirits and pray for health