高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高涨
gāozhǎng
to rise; to surge; to run high
Characters in this word
涨 zhǎng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 张 to display
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 随着新证据不断公开，公众要求彻查事故原因的呼声持续高涨。 Suízhe xīn zhèngjù búduàn gōngkāi, gōngzhòng yāoqiú chèchá shìgù yuányīn de hūshēng chíxù gāozhǎng. As new evidence kept being made public, public calls for a thorough investigation into the cause of the accident continued to rise.
- 球赛快开始了，现场观众的热情越来越高涨。 Qiúsài kuài kāishǐ le, xiànchǎng guānzhòng de rèqíng yuèláiyuè gāozhǎng. The match is about to start and the enthusiasm of the audience is rising higher and higher.
- 夏天一到，冰淇淋的需求就高涨起来。 Xiàtiān yí dào, bīngqílín de xūqiú jiù gāozhǎng qǐlai. Once summer arrives, the demand for ice cream surges.