HSK 5 · Money

涨 zhǎng “to rise (of prices” in Chinese

Traditional 漲

What 涨 means

  1. to rise (of prices, rivers)

How to say 涨

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale涨zhǎng3rd tone, dipping

涨 in a sentence

  1. 价格还会继续涨吗？

    Jiàgé hái huì jìxù zhǎng ma?

    Will prices keep going up?

    Sentence #10457794 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他不肯给我涨工资。

    Tā bù kěn gěi wǒ zhǎng gōngzī.

    He won’t give me a pay rise.

    Sentence #1323685 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 日元涨了。

    Rìyuán zhǎng le.

    The yen has gone up.

    Sentence #8883985 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 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 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 涨

涨 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 涨

Words with 涨

高涨gāozhǎng · to rise

More words: Money & Economy

投资tóuzī · investment消费xiāofèi · to consume押金yājīn · deposit优惠yōuhuì · preferential账户zhànghù · bank account挣zhèng · to earn (money)支票zhīpiào · cheque资金zījīn · funds

FAQs

涨 (zhǎng) means “to rise (of prices, rivers)”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhǎng: 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, 涨 is written 漲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 涨 from the suggestions. Typing zhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
涨 is an HSK 5 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.