IDENTITY
增zēngto increase; to add
HSK 4Top 500
CORE MEANING
to increase; to add
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to increaseHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 土earth radical (tǔ)
- strokes
- 15
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰土曾
- earth (heaping)
- gives the sound zēng
USAGE
Common words
增加zēngjiāto increase
增长zēngzhǎngto grow
Graded examples
人口增加了不少。Rénkǒu zēngjiā le bùshǎo.HSK4
The population has grown quite a bit.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 赠
LEARNING
Memory aid
Heaping earth (土) on what once (曾) was — adding, increasing.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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