Chinese Character Wiki
增

zēng

increase

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

曾 sound component

曾  Sound component

céng, zēng

  

already

Evolution

增 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
增 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
增 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
增 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

增  

zēng

increase, add to, augment; to increase; to expand; to add

Most common words with 增
Freq.
Word
Meaning

增加

to raise

增长

to grow

增强

to increase

增

to add

增援

to reinforce

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-tˤəŋ

tsong

zēng

increase


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 23.9308% of movies

1435th most common character in movies

446th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+589E

Shuowen

“增，益也。从土，曾聲。”


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