Kanji Detail for 騰 - "rise, soar, ascend"

騰

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
騰 means "rise, soar, ascend."
1. Rise - To go up; to ascend.
2. Soar - To fly high; to increase rapidly.
3. Jump - To leap; to spring up.
4. Gallop - To run fast (of horses).
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

leaping up; jumping up; rising; advancing; going

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

fly; gallop; run; prance; rise

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(bound form) to gallop; to prance; (bound form) to soar; to hover; to make room; to clear out; to vacate; (verb suffix indicating repeated action)

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to fly, to soar; to gallop, to prance; rising, steaming

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A horse galloping and leaping. | All rising is called 騰. As in prices rising suddenly is called 騰貴.
Onyomi

toh(とう)
Kunyomi

a.garu(あがる)

nobo.ru(のぼる)
Strokes

20 strokes
Radical

馬 (uma・umahen)
Related Keywords
rise soar ascend jump leap climb surge increase elevate lift mount gallop race run fly spring bound escalate advance prosper