上扬 (shàng yáng) — (of prices, stocks, spirits, etc.) to rise; to…

Definition

verb

(of prices, stocks, spirits, etc.) to riseto go upto toss upward and scatter

Easily confused

上扬。
Gǔ piào de jià gé bú duàn shàng yáng.
Stock prices keep rising.
，上扬。
Tīng le zhè ge xiāo xi, dà jiā de qíng xù shàng yáng le bù shǎo.
Hearing this news, everyone's spirits rose quite a bit.
上扬，。
Tā bǎ zhǒng zi shàng yáng dào kōng zhōng, ràng tā men sàn kāi.
He tossed the seeds into the air to let them scatter.

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.

“上” adds upward direction and “扬” means to rise or scatter, so the meaning is to rise upward.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

上 is drawn as a short horizontal line placed above a longer arc, marking a position above that arc.

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 揚; 扬 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

昜

昜yáng揚

Same sound today

The traditional form 揚 uses 手 to show a hand-related action and 昜 to give the sound; the simplified 扬 is a later abbreviation.