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高涨 gāozhǎng “to rise” in Chinese

Traditional 高漲

What 高涨 means

  1. to rise
  2. to surge
  3. running high
  4. to surge up
  5. (of tensions etc) to run high

How to say 高涨

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale高gāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale涨zhǎng3rd tone, dipping

高涨 in a sentence

  1. 大家学习的热情很高涨。

    Dàjiā xuéxí de rèqíng hěn gāozhǎng.

    Everyone is very enthusiastic about learning.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 最近房价又高涨了。

    Zuìjìn fángjià yòu gāozhǎng le.

    House prices have shot up again recently.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 高涨 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 高 (gāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
高gāohigh
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 冋desert · jiōng

Memory aidDrawn from a tall tower: high, tall.

The character 涨 (zhǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
涨zhǎngto rise
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 张to display · zhāngSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 张 (zhāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhǎng.

How to write 高涨

高 10 strokes · 涨 10 strokes

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高涨 (gāozhǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 高涨 (gāozhǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 高涨

Words with 高

高兴gāoxìng · happy高gāo · tall高中gāozhōng · senior high school提高tígāo · to raise高铁gāotiě · high-speed rail身高shēngāo · (a person’s) height高速公路gāosùgōnglù · motorway高级gāojí · high level高档gāodàng · superior quality崇高chónggāo · lofty

Words with 涨

涨zhǎng · to rise (of prices

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FAQs

高涨 (gāozhǎng) means “to rise” or “to surge”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gāozhǎng: gāo with a 1st tone, then zhǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 高涨 is written 高漲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gaozhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 高涨 from the suggestions. Typing gaozhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
高涨 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.