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

HSK 7-9
Qiāngshēng yì xiǎng, línzhōng de niǎo quándōu jīngfēi le.
At the gunshot, all the birds in the forest flew off in alarm.
HSK 7-9
Xiāoxi 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