| 潮 | 992C15 63A.42-1 | 部居  | 畫數 15 | ㄔㄠˊ [chao2] | ||
| N. | (1) Tide: 潮水 [chao2shui3]↓; 漲潮，高潮 flood tide, (fig.) crest of luck, fortune peak of romance, success; 退潮 low tide, ebb; 低潮 ebb; (fig.) low point of fortune, romance; 潮汐 [chao2xi4]↓. (2) Stream of events, current of thought: 潮流 [chao2liu2]↓; 風潮 crisis in school, strike in factory; 思潮 current of thought; 新潮 new current of ideas; 狂潮，怒潮 storm or flood of protests, violent radicalism; 心血來潮 a sudden inspiration. | |||||
| Adj. | (1) Moist, damp: 潮氣，潮濕 [chao2qi4], [chao2shi1]↓. (2) (Coll.) inferior: 銀子成色潮 low content of silver; 手藝潮 inferior skill. | |||||
| Words | 1. 潮白 [chao2bai2], n., a kind of sugar, produced in 潮州 Swatow. 2. 潮氣 [chao2qi4], n., dampness. 3. 潮解 [chao2jie3], v.i. & n., (chem.) deliquesce, -cence, liquify. 4. 潮州 [chou2zhou1], n., Swatow. 5. 潮流 [chao2liu2], n., (1) current (in sea, river); (2) trend or current of thought. 6. 潮腦 [chao2nao3], n., camphor of 潮州 (Swatow). 7. 潮熱 [chao2re4], n., (Chin. med.) intermittent fever (like “tides”). 8. 潮汐 [chao2xi4], n., morning and evening tides. 9. 潮信 [chao2xin4], n., hours of flood tide. 10. 潮水 [chao2shui3], n., side, flood water. 11. 潮濕 [chao2shi1], adj., damp. 12. 潮音 [chao2yin1], n., (Budd.) swelling sound, litany. | |||||