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增加

zēng jiā 1–1

to raise; to increase

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
增 · 加
Syllables
2
zēng jiā
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,419

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 增zēng15 strokesHSK 3increase, add to, augment
  • 加jiā5 strokesHSK 2add to, increase, augment

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 出国的人数一直在增加。

    Chū guó de rén shù yī zhí zài zēng jiā

    The number of people who go abroad has been increasing.

  • 学生人数一年比一年增加。

    Xué sheng rén shù yī nián bǐ yī nián zēng jiā

    The number of students grows year by year.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 增加. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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