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扩建

kuò jiàn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 擴建

扩建 (kuò jiàn) means "to extend (a building, an airport runway etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 扩建 means

1. to extend (a building, an airport runway etc)

The characters in 扩建

• 扩kuòto enlarge
• 建jiànto establish; to found; to set up

Example sentences

• 西面大楼的扩建在研究中。
  Xīmiàn dàlóu de kuòjiàn zài yánjiū zhōng.
  The expansion of the building's west end is being studied.

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