看涨 (kàn zhǎng) — to expect prices to rise; to be bullish on a market or asset

Definition

A finance term meaning 'to expect prices to rise' / 'to be bullish'. Its opposite is 看跌 (kàn diē, 'bearish').

verb
to expect prices to riseto be bullish on a market or asset

Examples

  • 看涨。
    Xǔ duō tóu zī zhě kàn zhǎng míng nián de fáng jià.
    Many investors are bullish on housing prices next year.
  • 看涨，。
    Tā kàn zhǎng zhè zhī gǔ piào, suǒ yǐ mǎi le hěn duō.
    She expects this stock to rise, so she bought a lot.
  • 看涨。
    Shì chǎng pǔ biàn kàn zhǎng shí yóu jià gé jiāng chí xù zǒu gāo.
    The market generally expects oil prices to keep rising.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

看kànexpect
涨zhǎngrise

看 means expect and 涨 means rise, so prices are expected to go up.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

The shape 看 puts 手 (hand) over 目 (eye), showing a hand placed above the eyes to gaze into the distance.

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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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