猛涨
měng​zhǎng

soar

猛 měng violent

Components

犭
犭 Meaning component
quǎn dog

dog

孟
孟 Sound component
mèng first in series

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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 Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangmraːŋʔ
Unicodemæ̌ng

說文解字

健犬也。从犬孟聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
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