蹿升
cuān​shēng

shoot up

蹿 cuān leap Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 窜 represents the sound. Simplified form of 躥.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
窜
窜 Sound component
cuàn run away

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

升 shēng ascend, rise

Pictograph of a spoon with something inside it. Spoons are used to lift things up.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2)

陞昇

Meaning (2)

陞昇

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyings-təŋ 1/10th of a dǒu 斗
syings-təŋ rise (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“升，十龠也。从斗，亦象形。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

躥 leap Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 竄 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
竄
竄 Sound component
cuàn run away

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰoːn

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang