暴涨
bào​zhǎng

surge

暴 bào violent

Original meaning: expose to sun

Depicts two hands (共) laying out rice (米) to dry under the sun (日), representing the meaning "expose to sun", now written as 曝. The meaning later shifted to "expose", "injure", and "violent".

Components

日
日 Iconic component
rì sun
共
共 Iconic component
gòng together with

Depicts two hands.

米
米 Iconic component
mǐ rice
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 米 than it was in ancient scripts.

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 Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 3 verified)

爆瀑曝

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

瀑

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbawH[b]ˤawk-s violent
buwkm-pˤawk expose to sun

說文解字

《說文》：“曓，疾有所趣也。从日出廾之。”

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)

涨 zhǎng, zhàng rise in price Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 张 represents the sound. Simplified form of 漲.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

张
张 Sound component
zhāng stretch

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

漲 zhǎng, zhàng rise in price Traditional

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

張
張 Sound component
zhāng stretch

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangtaŋ
taŋʔ
taŋs
Unicodedzhiɑ̀ng

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang