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增加

zēng jiā

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

增加 (zēng jiā) means "increase/add". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 增加 means

1. to raise; to increase

The characters in 增加

• 增zēng(bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
• 加jiāto add; (math) plus; to increase; to augment

Example sentences

• 我增加了体重。
  I've gained weight.
• 人口稳定地增加。
  There was a steady increase in population.
• 事故没减少而增加。
  Instead of fewer accidents there are more.
• 她最近增加了体重。
  She has put on weight recently.
• 出国的人数一直在增加。
  The number of people who go abroad has been increasing.
• 近年的游客数量大幅增加。
  Jìnnián de yóukè shùliàng dàfú zēngjiā.
  The number of tourists has increased greatly in recent years.

Words starting with 增加

• 增加值zēng jiā zhívalue added (accountancy)

Words containing 增加

• 日益增加rì yì zēng jiāto increase daily
• 经济增加值jīng jì zēng jiā zhíEconomic value added, EVA

Where 增加 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Shopping & everyday consumption (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zēng jiā correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.