biāo
verb #6,368

Meanings

  1. 1 to surge
  2. 2 to soar
  3. 3 to shoot up
  4. 4 to race

Examples

Fángjià yīzhí zài biāoshēng.
Housing prices have been soaring.
Tā xǐhuan zài gāosù gōnglù shang biāochē.
He likes to race on the highway.

Tips

usage
飙车 (biāochē) means 'to street race / speed recklessly'. 飙升 (biāoshēng) means 'to skyrocket' (prices, temperatures, etc.).

Components

radical
fēng
wind
Right-side wind radical — the indexing radical (simplified from ). Combined with the running-pack on the left, the picture is a whirlwind kicked up by dogs galloping in formation — a windstorm of motion. From this concrete sense came the modern senses 'soar, surge, skyrocket' (股价飙升 stock prices rocketing) — anything moving with windswept speed.
phonetic
biāo
running pack of dogs
Left-side — three (dogs) stacked, depicting a pack of dogs racing together. Supplies the sound biāo and a perfect semantic backing: 'pack racing' = the speeding/surging core of . The modern slang 飙车 (speeding/drag-racing) literally still channels this image of dogs galloping in formation.

Stroke Order

biāo