增

zēng

(bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to

earth (土) + sound (曾) = to increase, add to

Earth piles up and accumulates — the soil radical anchors the sense of things growing or building in quantity. 曾 gives the sound zēng and does not carry meaning here.

土+曾→增
土EarthSemantic
曾OncePhonetic

这个月我们店的销售量有所增加。

zhè ge yuè wǒ men diàn de xiāo shòu liàng yǒu suǒ zēng jiā。

This month our store's sales volume has increased somewhat.

政府决定增加对教育的投入。

zhèng fǔ jué dìng zēng jiā duì jiào yù de tóu rù。

The government decided to increase investment in education.

Words with 增

倍增

bèi zēng

to double

增加

zēng jiā

to raise; to increase

增塑剂

zēng sù jì

plasticizer

增添

zēng tiān

to add

增订

zēng dìng

to revise and enlarge (a book)

增生

zēng shēng

(medicine) hyperplasia

递增

dì zēng

to increase by degrees

马齿徒增

mǎ chǐ tú zēng

(self-deprecating) to have grown old without accomplishing anything (idiom)

骨髓增生异常综合征

gǔ suǐ zēng shēng yì cháng zōng hé zhēng

myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)

倍增器

bèi zēng qì

multiplier

价值增殖

jià zhí zēng zhí

valorization (in Marxist theory)

剧增

jù zēng

dramatic increase

More characters with 土

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