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潮

cháo

HSK 5 Character

What 潮 means

1. tide
2. damp; moist; humid
3. fashionable; trendy
4. colloquialinferior; substandard

Example sentences

• 我是潮州人。
  I am Teochew.
• 我快要到高潮了。
  Wǒ kuàiyào dào gāocháo le.
  I am reaching the climax.
• 她是潮流的奴隶。
  She is a slave of fashion.
• 今天没有昨天潮湿。
  Jīntiān méiyǒu zuótiān cháo shī.
  It is less humid today than it was yesterday.
• 夏天总是闷热而又潮湿。
  Xiàtiān zǒngshì mēnrè ér yòu cháoshī.
  Summer is always hot and humid.
• 台湾的夏天很潮湿闷热。
  Summers in Taiwan are sweltering.

Words starting with 潮

• 潮流cháo liútide; current; trend
• 潮湿cháo shīdamp; moist
• 潮水cháo shuǐtide
• 潮汕Cháo shànChaoshan, region in the east of Guangdong, encompassing the cities of Chaozhou 潮州市
• 潮汐cháo xītide
• 潮红cháo hóngflush
• 潮人cháo réntrendsetter
• 潮位cháo wèitide level
• 潮吹cháo chuīfemale ejaculation
• 潮气cháo qìhumidity; moisture
• 潮热cháo rèhot flush
• 潮玩cháo wánart toy; designer toy (abbr. for 潮流玩具
• 潮男cháo nánmetrosexual
• 潮解cháo jiěto deliquesce; deliquescence (chemistry)
• 潮语cháo yǔfashionable word or phrase; abbr. for 潮流用语
• 潮南区Cháo nán QūChaonan, a district of Shantou City 汕头市
• 潮安区Cháo ān QūChao'an, a district of Chaozhou City 潮州市
• 潮州市Cháo zhōu ShìChaozhou, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 广东省
• 潮解性cháo jiě xìngdeliquescent
• 潮间带cháo jiān dàiintertidal zone
• 潮阳区Cháo yáng QūChaoyang, a district of Shantou City 汕头市
• 潮虫cháo chóngwoodlouse (suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda)…
• 潮涌cháo yǒngto surge like the tide
• 潮汕话Cháo shàn huàChaoshan or Teo-Swa, a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people of the Chaoshan…

Words containing 潮

• 高潮gāo cháohigh tide; high water; upsurge; peak of activity; climax (of a story, a competition etc)
• 浪潮làng cháowave; tides
• 热潮rè cháowave of enthusiasm; craze; upsurge
• 思潮sī cháotide of thought; way of thinking characteristic of a historical period; Zeitgeist
• 人潮rén cháoa tide of people
• 风潮fēng cháotempest; wave (of popular sentiment etc); craze or fad
• 新潮xīn cháomodern; fashionable
• 大潮dà cháospring tide; (fig.) momentous social change
• 心血来潮xīn xuè lái cháoto be prompted by a sudden impulse; carried away by a whim; to have a brainstorm
• 低潮dī cháolow tide; low ebb
• 学潮xué cháostudent protest; campus unrest
• 狂潮kuáng cháosurging tide; (fig.) tide; craze
• 防潮fáng cháodamp proof; moisture proof; protection against tides
• 海潮hǎi cháotide
• 涨潮zhǎng cháohigh tide; rising tide
• 退潮tuì cháo(of a tide) to ebb or go out
• 心潮澎湃xīn cháo péng pàito be overwhelmed by emotions
• 干潮gān cháolow tide; low water
• 来潮lái cháo(of water) to rise; rising tide; (of women) to get one's period
• 初潮chū cháomenarche
• 受潮shòu cháoto get moist; to get damp (due to humidity, seepage etc)
• 回潮huí cháoto become moist again; to revive (usually of sth bad); resurgence
• 小潮xiǎo cháoneap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)
• 暗潮àn cháoundercurrent

Characters that look like 潮

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 濑làiname of a river; rushing of water
• 厮sī(bound form) together; each other; (bound form) male servant; (bound form) dude…
• 鞘qiàoscabbard; sheath
• 粼línclear (as of water)
• 翱áosee 翱翔
• 獭tǎotter; Taiwan pr. tà

Sounds the same

Read cháo, tone for tone, but written differently.

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