潮 cháo

1. cháo noun tide
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
   Notes: In the sense of 潮汐 (ABC 'cháo' 潮 n 1, p. 98; Guoyu '潮' n 1; Kroll 2015 '潮' 1, p. 44; NCCED 1 '潮' 1, p. 192; Mathews 1931 '潮', p. 29; Unihan '潮'; XHZD '潮' 1, p. 80)
2. cháo adjective moist; wet; damp
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 湿 (ABC 'cháo' 潮 sv 2, p. 98; Guoyu '潮' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '潮' 2, p. 44; Mathews 1931 '潮', p. 30; NCCED 1 '潮' 3, p. 192; Unihan '潮'; XHZD '潮' 3, p. 80)
3. cháo noun flow; current; trend
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Especially the sense of social trend; for example, 学潮 educational trend (ABC 'cháo' 潮 n 2, p. 98; Guoyu '潮' n 2; Kroll 2015 '潮' 1a, p. 44; NCCED 1 '潮' 2, p. 192; Unihan '潮'; XHZD '潮' 2, p. 80)
4. cháo adjective inferior
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'cháo' 潮 sv 3, p. 98; NCCED 2 '潮', p. 192; XHZD '潮' 4, p. 80)
5. cháo noun a tidal bore
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '潮' 1b, p. 44)
6. cháo adjective in fashion
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'cháo' 潮 sv 1, p. 98)
7. cháo adjective not skilled
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'cháo' 潮 sv 4, p. 98; Guoyu '潮' adj 2)
8. cháo proper noun Chao
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Short for 潮州 (NCCED 3 '潮', p. 192)

Contained in

• 高低潮 the tide; high and low water
• 赤潮 algal bloom
• 防潮堤 tide embankment
• 潮湧 to surge like the tide
• 防潮垫(防潮墊) groundsheet (for camping etc)
• 浪潮 tidal bore
• 海潮 tide
• 潮语(潮語) fashionable word or phrase
• 乘潮 ride the tide
• 反高潮 anticlimax
• 人潮 a tide of people
• 潮蒸 damp and hot
• 潮汐电站(潮汐電站) tidal power station
• 潮气(潮氣) humidity
• 潮男 metrosexual
• 落潮 (of a tide) to ebb or go out
• 干潮(乾潮) low tide
• 潮解 deliquescent; water absorbing
• 潮溼 humid
• 性欲高潮(性慾高潮) orgasm
• 涨潮(漲潮) rising tide
• 来潮(來潮) to rise; rising tide ; to get one's period
• 初潮 menarche
• 性高潮 orgasm; climax
• 寒潮 cold wave
• 防潮 damp proof; moisture proof; protection against tides
• 暗潮 undercurrent
• 潮位 tide level
• 潮红(潮紅) flush
• 心潮澎湃 to be overwhelmed by emotions
• 潮间带(潮間帶) intertidal zone
• 心血来潮(心血來潮) to be prompted by a sudden impulse; carried away by a whim; to have a brainstorm
• 婴儿潮(嬰兒潮) baby boom
• 淘金潮 gold rush
• 最低潮 low tide; the lowest point (e.g. of a relationship)
• 小潮 neap tide
• 黑潮 Kuroshio current
• 红潮(紅潮) to blush; flush; red tide (algal bloom); menstruation
• 风暴潮(風暴潮) storm surge
• 高潮 upsurge ; climax ; high tide
• 热潮(熱潮) a vigorous mass campaign
• 潮吹 female ejaculation
• 返潮 (of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)

Also contained in

潮汕 、 潮南区 、 钱塘潮 、 潮州市 、 潮阳区 、 潮阳 、 潮州 、 加利福尼亚淘金潮

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Truncated for common words

• 卷九十七 志第五十 河渠七 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Rivers and Canals 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 33
• 卷一百九十二　　列傳第一百十七 忠義中 Volume 192 Biographies 117: Loyalty and Righteousness 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 27
• 卷一百三十四 僭偽列傳一: 楊行密 李昪 王審知 Volume 134: Biographies of Usurpers 1 - Yang Xingmi, Li Bian, Wang Shenzhi Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 25
• 卷二十八 志第四 五行一 Volume 28 Treatises 4: Five Elements 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 21
• 卷六十八 閩世家第八: 王審知 Volume 68: Hereditary House of Min New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 20
• 卷一百九十　　　列傳第一百十五 三劉成杜鍾張王 Volume 190 Biographies 115: Three Liu's, Cheng, Du, Zhong, Zhang, Wang New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 19
• 卷八十八 志第六十四 河渠六 Volume 88 Treatises 64: Rivers and Canals 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 17
• 卷一百二十一 志第七十四 禮二十四 Volume 121 Treatises 74: Rites 24 History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
• 卷一百八十九 志第一百四十二 兵三 Volume 189 Treatises 142: Military 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 9
• 卷九十六 志第四十九 河渠六 Volume 96 Treatises 49: Rivers and Canals 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7

Collocations

• 王潮 (王潮) 就加福建節度使王潮檢校尚書右僕射 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷二十上 本紀第二十上: 昭宗 Volume 20 Annals 20: Zhaozong — count: 17
• 义潮 (義潮) 沙州刺史張義潮遣兄義澤以瓜 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷十八下 本紀第十八下: 宣宗 Volume 18 Annals 18: Xuanzong — count: 13
• 潮沟 (潮溝) 潮溝獲白雀一 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷二 本紀第二 武帝中 Volume 2: Emperor Wu 2 — count: 10
• 潮二 (潮二) 潮二州隸廣府 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 — count: 7
• 令狐潮 (令狐潮) 時雍丘令令狐潮欲以其城降賊 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百八十七下 列傳第一百三十七下: 忠義下 Volume 187 Biographies 137: Loyal and Righteous 2 — count: 7
• 在潮 (在潮) 植之館在潮溝 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷四十八 列傳第四十二 儒林 Volume 48: Confucian Scholars — count: 4
• 潮怒 (潮怒) 潮怒 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百九十二　　列傳第一百十七 忠義中 Volume 192 Biographies 117: Loyalty and Righteousness 2 — count: 3
• 遇潮 (遇潮) 遇潮涸不得去 — History of the Southern Dynasties 南史, 卷二十七　列傳第十七 孔靖 孔琳之 殷景仁 Volume 27 Biographies 17: Kong Jing, Kong Linzhi, Yin Jingren — count: 2
• 潮陷 (潮陷) 王潮陷泉州 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷九　　　　　　本紀第九　懿宗　僖宗 Volume 9 Annals 9: Yizong, Xizong — count: 2
• 闻潮 (聞潮) 聞潮治軍有法 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百九十　　　列傳第一百十五 三劉成杜鍾張王 Volume 190 Biographies 115: Three Liu's, Cheng, Du, Zhong, Zhang, Wang — count: 2