飙升
biāo shēng · HSK 7
to rise rapidly
🚀📈 飙 = three dogs + wind (gale); add 升 rise — everything shoots up
飙 originally meant whirlwind — three dogs (猋) racing over wind (风). Paired with 升 (ascend), it captures a sudden dramatic spike upward.
升 — ladle/scoop pictograph (related to 斗)
升 originally pictured a ladle or dipper used to measure grain, closely related to 斗 (a larger dipper). It came to denote a unit of dry measure (a 'sheng', about a liter). From 'scooping up' it extended to the meaning 'rise, ascend'.