Chinese symbol for “swell”
涨
zhàng
Traditional: 漲
to swell; to distend
The closest CC-CEDICT match for swell is 涨 (zhàng), defined as: to swell; to distend.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “swell”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肿 (腫) | zhǒng | to swell; swelling |
| 胀 (脹) | zhàng | to swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated |
| 隆起 | lóng qǐ | to swell; to bulge |
| 膨大 | péng dà | to swell; to inflate |
| 涌浪 (湧浪) | yǒng làng | swell; billows |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上涨 (上漲) | shàng zhǎng | to rise; to go up |
| 高涨 (高漲) | gāo zhǎng | to surge up; to rise |
| 涨幅 (漲幅) | zhǎng fú | extent of a rise (in prices etc); amount of increase |
| 涨价 (漲價) | zhǎng jià | to appreciate (in value); to increase in price |
| 暴涨 (暴漲) | bào zhǎng | to increase sharply; to rise dramatically |
| 涨停 (漲停) | zhǎng tíng | (of a stock price) to rise to the daily upper limit (resulting in a temporary halt in trading of the stock) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “swell”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.