| 潮 | cháo | tide; current; damp; moist; humid |
| 高潮 | gāo cháo | high tide; high water; upsurge; climax; orgasm; chorus (part of a song) |
| 潮湿 | cháo shī | damp; moist |
| 思潮 | sī cháo | tide of thought; way of thinking characteristic of a historical period; Zeitgeist |
| 潮流 | cháo liú | tide; current; trend |
| 防潮 | fáng cháo | damp proof; moisture proof; protection against tides |
| 热潮 | rè cháo | upsurge; popular craze |
| 浪潮 | làng cháo | wave; tides |
| 风潮 | fēng cháo | tempest; wave (of popular sentiment etc); craze or fad |
| 受潮 | shòu cháo | damp; affected by damp and cold |
| 潮水 | cháo shuǐ | tide |
| 低潮 | dī cháo | low tide; low ebb |
| 潮州 | Cháo zhōu | Chaozhou prefecture level city in Guangdong 广东省; Chaochou town in Pingtung county 屏东县, Taiwan |
| 怒潮 | nù cháo | (tidal) bore; raging tide |
| 潮汐 | cháo xī | tide |
| 潮解 | cháo jiě | to deliquesce; deliquescence (chemistry) |
| 寒潮 | hán cháo | cold wave; CL: 股 |
| 回潮 | huí cháo | to become moist again; to revive (usually of sth bad); resurgence |
| 海潮 | hǎi cháo | tide |
| 人潮 | rén cháo | a tide of people |
| 佳评如潮 | jiā píng rú cháo | a hit; tremendous popularity |
| 初潮 | chū cháo | menarche |
| 反高潮 | fǎn gāo cháo | anticlimax |
| 大潮 | dà cháo | tidal bore; tidal wave |
| 小潮 | xiǎo cháo | neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter) |
| 心血来潮 | xīn xuè lái cháo | to be prompted by a sudden impulse; carried away by a whim; have a brainstorm |
| 性交高潮 | xìng jiāo gāo cháo | orgasm |
| 性欲高潮 | xìng yù gāo cháo | orgasm |
| 性高潮 | xìng gāo cháo | orgasm; climax |
| 招潮蟹 | zhāo cháo xiè | fiddler crab (genus Uca) |
| 新潮 | xīn cháo | modern; fashionable |
| 暗潮 | àn cháo | undercurrent |
| 最低潮 | zuì dī cháo | lit. low tide; fig. the lowest point (e.g. of a relationship) |
| 朔望潮 | shuò wàng cháo | spring tide (biggest tide, at new moon or full moon) |
| 涨潮 | zhǎng cháo | high tide; rising tide |
| 潮南 | Cháo nán | Chaonan district of Shantou city 汕头市, Guangdong |
| 潮南区 | Cháo nán qū | Chaonan district of Shantou city 汕头市, Guangdong |
| 潮安 | Cháo ān | Chao'an county in Chaozhou 潮州, Guangdong |
| 潮安县 | Cháo ān xiàn | Chao'an county in Chaozhou 潮州, Guangdong |
| 潮州市 | Cháo zhōu shì | Chaozhou prefecture level city in Guangdong 广东省 |
| 潮州镇 | Cháo zhōu zhèn | Chaochou town in Pingtung county 屏东县, Taiwan |
| 潮汐电站 | cháo xī diàn zhàn | tidal power station |
| 潮洲 | Cháo zhōu | Chaozhou or Teochew, a town near Guangdong, with famous cuisine; Chaozhou, variant of Minnan dialect 闽南语 spoken in east Guangdong |
| 潮涌 | cháo yǒng | (a new development) bubbles up |
| 潮红 | cháo hóng | flush |
| 潮虫 | cháo chóng | woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda); a.k.a. roly-poly, pill bug, sow bug etc |
| 潮解性 | cháo jiě xìng | deliquescent |
| 潮间带 | cháo jiān dài | intertidal zone |
| 潮阳 | Cháo yáng | Chaoyang district of Shantou city 汕头市, Guangdong |
| 潮阳区 | Cháo yáng qū | Chaoyang district, Shantou city, Guangdong |
