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涨

漲
zhǎng / zhàng
verb HSK 5 #6,433

Meanings

  1. 1 to rise; to go up (of prices, water levels)
  2. 2 to surge; to grow (followers, traffic, mood)

Examples

房价又涨了。
Fángjià yòu zhǎng le.
Housing prices have risen again.
河水涨了很多。
Héshuǐ zhǎng le hěn duō.
The river has risen a lot.
他的账号最近涨粉很快。
Tā de zhànghào zuìjìn zhǎngfěn hěn kuài.
His account has been gaining followers quickly lately.

Tips

usage
zhǎng is the everyday 'rise' verb. Three big domains: (1) prices / markets — 涨价 (raise prices), 上涨 (go up), 暴涨 (skyrocket), 涨停 (hit daily limit-up). (2) Water / tides — 涨潮 (rising tide), the proverb 水涨船高 (when the water rises, the boats rise). (3) Social media — 涨粉 (gain followers), 涨流量 (grow traffic). The opposite is 跌 (fall) for prices.
mistakes
Two readings. zhǎng (3rd tone, this entry) is 'rise / go up' — about levels going higher. The 4th-tone reading 涨 (see the zhàng entry) is 'swell / expand' — about bodies or organs distending. Same character, different physics: rising water vs. a bloated stomach.

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water (radical form)
Water radical on the left — the 3-stroke side-form of 水. Direct semantic anchor: 涨 originally meant rising flood-waters. From the literal swelling river came all the modern senses (rise, swell, increase, redden). Same radical in 河, 海, 流, 汤.
phonetic
张 zhāng
stretch; open out; surname
Right side 张 supplies the sound directly: zhāng → zhǎng (or zhàng for 'swell up'). 张 itself means 'to draw a bow tight, to stretch open,' which doubles as semantic flavour — water rising is water being stretched upward, the river opening out. So 涨 is one of those phonetic-plus-semantic doubles where the right side supports the left.

Stroke Order

涨 zhǎng