高涨 (gāo zhǎng) — (verb) to surge up, to rise; to run high; (adjective) high, surging

Definition

Used for emotions, morale, or prices that rise sharply. Pairs with abstract nouns (情绪, 士气, 物价), unlike 上涨 which is mainly for prices and quantities, or 激增 which emphasizes rapid numerical increase.

verb
to surge upto riseto run high
adjective
highsurging

Examples

  • ,高涨。
    Suí zhe jīng jì de fù sū, shì chǎng xìn xīn rì yì gāo zhǎng.
    As the economy recovers, market confidence is surging day by day.
  • ,高涨。
    Bǐ sài qián, guān zhòng men de qíng xù shí fēn gāo zhǎng.
    Before the game, the audience's emotions were running high.
  • 高涨,。
    Zuì jìn wù jià gāo zhǎng, lǎo bǎi xìng de shēng huó yā lì biàn dà le.
    Recently prices have surged, and ordinary people's living pressure has increased.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

高 adds a sense of height to 涨, expressing a rise or surge to a high level.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

高 was drawn as a tall building.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 漲; 涨 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
水水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
張
張zhāng漲zhàng
Same sound today

The traditional form 漲 pairs 水 (water) with 張 as a sound part; the simplified 涨 is a later shorthand and its parts are not the historical components.

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