IDENTITY
加jiāto add; to increase
HSK 2Top 100
CORE MEANING
to add; to increase
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to addHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 力strength radical (lì)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰力口
- effort
- calling for more
USAGE
Common words
参加cānjiāto participate
增加zēngjiāto increase
加班jiābānto work overtime
Graded examples
我想参加篮球比赛。Wǒ xiǎng cānjiā lánqiú bǐsài.HSK2
I want to join the basketball match.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 力
LEARNING
Memory aid
Effort (力) called for by the mouth (口) — adding more.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #100
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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