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增添

zēng tiān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

增添 (zēng tiān) means "to add; to increase". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 增添 means

1. to add
2. to increase

The characters in 增添

• 增zēng(bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
• 添tiānto add; to increase; to replenish

Example sentences

• 胡萝卜为我的餐点增添了色彩。
  Carrots add color to my meals.
• 为了增添节日的气氛 ，那里的人用盆栽装饰他们的家。
  Wèile zēngtiān jiérì de qìfēn, nàli de rén yòng pénzāi zhuāngshì tāmen de jiā.
  People there decorate their homes with potted flowers to add to the festival atmosphere.
• 这才是美国真正的精华——美国能够改变。我们的联邦会日渐完美。我们现在已取得的成就为我们将来能够取得和必须取得的成就增添了希望。
  Zhè cái shì Měiguó zhēnzhèng de jīnghuá —— Měiguó nénggòu gǎibiàn. wǒmen de liánbāng huì rìjiàn wánměi. wǒmen xiànzài yǐ qǔdé de chéngjiù wèi wǒmen jiānglái nénggòu qǔdé hé bìxū qǔdé de chéngjiù zēngtiān le xīwàng.
  That's the true genius of America; that America can change. Our Union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

Where 增添 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zàn–zēng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zēng tiān correctly.
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