增
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(bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 增
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 增长天 | Virudhaka (one of the Heavenly Kings) | |
| 增城区 | Zengcheng, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 骨质增生 | (medicine) hyperostosis | |
| 单核细胞增多症 | mononucleosis | |
| 经济增长 | economic growth | |
| 经济增长率 | economic growth rate | |
| 增白剂 | whitener; whitening agent | |
| 有增无减 | to increase without letup; to get worse and worse (idiom) | |
| 经济增加值 | Economic value added, EVA | |
| 几何级数增长 | exponential increase | |
| 增大 | to enlarge; to amplify; to magnify | |
| 增量参数 | incremental parameter | |
| 增生 | (medicine) hyperplasia; a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who … | |
| 增强现实 | (computing) augmented reality; AR | |
| 增长率 | growth rate (esp. in economics) | |
| 增高 | to heighten; to raise; to increase; to rise | |
| 增长 | to grow; to increase | |
| 增重粉 | gainer (supplement) | |
| 日益增加 | to increase daily | |
| 日增 | increasing by the day |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 曾 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 曾 sound part | already, formerly, once; the past | |
| 僧 | Buddhist priest, monk | |
| 赠 | to bestow, to confer, to present a gift | |
| 蹭 | to shuffle; to procrastinate, to freeload, to dilly-dally | |
| 憎 | to abhor, to detest, to hate | |
| 噌 | to scold, to shout at | |
| 缯 | silk; to tie, to bind; surname | |
| 罾 | a large square net for catching fish | |
| 甑 | a boiler for steaming rice |