潮

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tide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy; (coll.) inferior; substandard

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 meaning “water” + 朝 sound ( cháo )

Components 氵朝

tide · Heisig RSH #149

水 water + 朝 dynasty

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
性交高潮	xìng jiāo gāo cháo	orgasm
心血来潮	xīn xuè lái cháo	to be prompted by a sudden impulse; carried away by a whim; to have a brainstorm
潮安区	Cháo ān Qū	Chao'an, a district of Chaozhou City 潮州市[Chao2 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong
性高潮	xìng gāo cháo	orgasm; climax
潮南区	Cháo nán Qū	Chaonan, a district of Shantou City 汕頭市\|汕头市[Shan4 tou2 Shi4], Guangdong
潮阳区	Cháo yáng Qū	Chaoyang, a district of Shantou City 汕頭市\|汕头市[Shan4 tou2 Shi4], Guangdong
潮州市	Cháo zhōu Shì	Chaozhou, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省\|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3]
反高潮	fǎn gāo cháo	anticlimax
潮解性	cháo jiě xìng	deliquescent
潮间带	cháo jiān dài	intertidal zone
人潮	rén cháo	a tide of people
大潮	dà cháo	spring tide; (fig.) momentous social change
潮人	cháo rén	trendsetter
潮水	cháo shuǐ	tide
学潮	xué cháo	student protest; campus unrest
小潮	xiǎo cháo	neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)
性欲高潮	xìng yù gāo cháo	orgasm
海潮	hǎi cháo	tide
潮安	Cháo ān	see 潮安區\|潮安区[Chao2 an1 Qu1]
潮气	cháo qì	humidity; moisture

Characters sharing the sound component 朝 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
朝 sound part	cháo	to face; direct, facing; dynasty; morning
嘲	cháo	to deride, to jeer at, to ridicule, to scorn