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扩张

kuò zhāng

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

扩张 (kuò zhāng) means "expansion; dilation; to expand (e.g. one's power or influence)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 扩张 means

1. expansion
2. dilation
3. to expand (e.g. one's power or influence)
4. to broaden

The characters in 扩张

• 扩kuòto enlarge
• 张zhāngto open up; to spread; sheet of paper

Example sentences

• 城市扩张会对环境造成破坏。
  Urban sprawl is environmentally damaging.
• 周五上午，美国劳工统计局公布的数据显示，美国经济原本预计为正在快速扩张，但 4 月仅新增了 26.6 万个工作岗位，这令美国的经济学家和政策制定者感到震惊。
  Economists and policymakers in the U.S. were stunned Friday morning when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. economy, thought to be expanding at a rapid pace, added only 266,000 jobs in April.

Words containing 扩张

• 海底扩张hǎi dǐ kuò zhāngseafloor spreading (geology)
• 海底扩张说hǎi dǐ kuò zhāng shuōtheory of seafloor spreading (geology)

Where 扩张 is taught

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

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