How to write 躍

躍 (yuè) 1. See "跃" (yue). 2. Verb: to jump. Example phrases: "飞跃前进" (make great strides), "一跃而起" (jump up at once), "雀跃不已" (jump for joy). Reference: "易经．乾卦．九四" (I Ching, Hexagram 1, line 4): "或跃在渊" (sometimes one leaps into the abyss). Reference: "山海经．北山经" (Shan Hai Jing, Northern Mountains): "有鸟焉，其状如雌雉而人面，见人则跃" (there is a bird with the body of a hen and a human face, which leaps when it sees a person). 3. Verb: to increase in price. Reference: Han Dynasty, Huan Kuan’s "Salt and Iron Debates": "县官猥发，阖门擅市，则万物并收；万物并收，则物腾跃" (if county officials act indiscriminately and monopolize the market, then all things are gathered; when all things are gathered, prices leap). Reference: "汉书．卷二四．食货志下" (Book of Han, Volume 24, Treatise on Food and Money): "而不轨逐利之民畜积余赢以稽市物，痛腾跃，米至石万钱，马至匹百金" (Those who break the rules for profit hoard excess gains to manipulate prices, resulting in pain as prices leap, with rice reaching ten thousand coins per stone, and horses reaching one hundred gold pieces each).