惊飞

驚飛
jīngfēi
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to fly off in alarm; to take off in fright (of birds)
  2. 2 to shoot up; to skyrocket (figurative)

Examples

Qiāngshēng yì xiǎng, lín zhōng de niǎo quán dōu jīngfēi le.
At the gunshot, all the birds in the forest flew off in alarm.
Xiāoxī chuánchū hòu, gǔjià shùnjiān jīngfēi.
After the news broke, the stock price instantly shot up.

Tips

memory
(startle) + (fly) — the literal sense (a bird startled into flight) is the older one; the 'skyrocket' sense extends that image to prices, numbers, anything that suddenly takes off.

Stroke Order

jīng
fēi