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HSK
to participate / to take part / to join
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *加* | 加* | *加
to add / (math.) plus / to increase; to augment / (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like , , etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良 "make some minor improvements to (it)")
HSK 2
to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel / to accelerate; to step on the gas / (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on
HSK 2
more (than sth else) / even more
HSK 3
to raise; to increase
HSK 3
to reinforce; to strengthen; to enhance
HSK 3
to accelerate; to speed up; to hasten
HSK 3
to process / processing / working (of machinery)
HSK 3
gas station
HSK 4
to become a member / to join / to mix into / to participate in / to add in
HSK 4
to work overtime
HSK 4
plus / to put in / to add / to add on / to add into / in addition / on top of that
HSK 5
in addition / moreover / (used before a disyllabic verb to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned) / to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb) / to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)
HSK 5
to accelerate; to speed up; to expedite
HSK 5
to heat
HSK 5
(of a nation) to join an alliance; (of an athlete) to join a sports team; (of an entrepreneur) to join a franchise; (of an actor) to join the cast of a movie; (of a recording artist) to sign with a label
HSK 6
to add; to increase
HSK 7-9
to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc)
HSK 7-9
to deepen
HSK 7-9
additional / annex
HSK 7-9
to intensify
HSK 7-9
to impose / to force upon
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to make matters even worse / to add insult to injury
HSK 7-9
to exert (effort or pressure)
HSK 7-9
to intensify / to speed up / to step up
HSK 7-9
to load (cargo) / (computing) to load (content)
cannon (loanword)
Canada
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *加* | 加* | *加
Canada (abbr. for 加拿大) / surname Jia
Tonga, South Pacific archipelago kingdom
Jamaica
Alaska, US state
to reinforce (a structure) / to strengthen
to add up (numbers) / (fig.) to put together (several things of the same type, e.g. skills)
Bucharest, capital of Romania
California
syndicate (loanword)
Caracas, capital of Venezuela
to increase daily
Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist
Jiagedaqi district of Daxing'anling prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区, in northwest Heilongjiang and northeast Inner Mongolia
to work extra hours / to do overtime
to heat / to add warmth / to raise temperature / fig. to stimulate
Singapore
California
to superimpose / to layer / to overlay / to superpose
Bengal / Bangladesh
to encrypt / encryption / to protect with a password
to double / to redouble
unrestricted
bonus point; extra credit / to award bonus points; to earn extra points
acceleration
to increase a bet; to raise (poker); to raise the stakes
vodka (loanword)
to raise salary
to lengthen
to crown / coronation
to injure
Jakarta, capital of Indonesia
all the more / even more / further
Caltex (petroleum brand name)
Lake Baikal, Russia
to increase a price
to increase (e.g. one's effort)
Las Vegas, Nevada
(of two or more things) to occur at the same time; to be mingled; to accompany each other
to expedite / (of a delivery etc) expedited / express / urgent
addition
widen
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: the four basic operations of arithmetic
in addition / extra
Caribbean
to pressurize / to pile on pressure
lit. contribute bricks and tiles for a building (idiom) / fig. to do one's bit to help
Picasso
to add material to an exam / supplementary exam
Stuttgart, city in southwest Germany and capital of Baden-Württemberg 巴登符騰堡州|巴登符腾堡州
Galicia, province and former kingdom of northwest Spain
to seal (with an official stamp) / to stamp / (fig.) to ratify / to put a lid on (a cooking pot) / to cap / to build an extension or additional story
Nicaragua
Gabon
Bulgaria
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
Gardner (name)
lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming) / to aggravate / to intensify
to spur the horse to full speed (idiom) / to go as fast as possible
extremely difficult / even more difficult
Senegal
to seal up (a door with a paper seal, or a document) / to confer an additional title on a nobleman
moreover; in addition to that
(sports) overtime / extra time / play-off
Agatha Christie
Kathmandu, capital of Nepal
to ratchet up / to raise (expectations etc) / to increase (a quota, a position in the market etc) / to up the ante / (computing) to encode
addend; summand
(idiom) wild and stormy; windy and wet
(loanword) gallon
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia
Calcutta (India)

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