水涨船高 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 水漲船高 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. shuǐzhǎngchuángāo ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄓㄤˇ ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄍㄠ 男 女 the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom) fig. to change with the overall trend to develop according to the situation Character by character 水(shuǐ)water 涨(zhǎng)rise 船(chuán)boat 高(gāo)high A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT