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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
to reinforce; to strengthen; to enhance
HSK 3
to accelerate; to speed up; to hasten
HSK 3
to raise; to increase
HSK 3
more (than sth else) / even more
HSK 3
to process / processing / working (of machinery)
HSK 3
to become a member / to join / to mix into / to participate in / to add in
HSK 4
gas station
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 intensify / to speed up / to step up
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
to add; to increase
HSK 7-9
to exert (effort or pressure)
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
additional / annex
HSK 7-9
to intensify
HSK 7-9
bonus point; extra credit / to award bonus points; to earn extra points
University of Chicago
California
Kamchatka (far eastern province of Russia)
additive / food additive
(loanword) cannon
Canada
porgy (Pagrosomus major)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *加* | 加* | *加
Canada (abbr. for 加拿大) / surname Jia
postposition (grammar)
constant acceleration
to increase bit by bit / repeated increments
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus
Kathmandu, capital of Nepal
Bucharest, capital of Romania
addend; summand
to have an extra meal / snack
(Tw) end-to-end encryption
acceleration
Guattari (philosopher)
Gabon
Caracas, capital of Venezuela
Katō (Japanese surname)
(loanword) cannon
Kangar city, capital of Perlis state 玻璃市, Malaysia
accumulator (computing)
franchise store
Riga, capital of Latvia
overtime pay
accelerator (computing) / particle accelerator
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
Alaska, US state
Málaga, Spain / Malaga city in Iranian East Azerbaijan
Tonga, South Pacific archipelago kingdom
Agadir, city in southwest Morocco
Caribbean Sea
concept-driven processing
California
Bulgaria
Galapagos Islands
to work extra hours / to do overtime
to buy (sth extra); to make an additional purchase
(loanword) vodka
Chicago, USA
hydrogenated oil
to increase a price
Gabon (Tw)
Jamaica
Luke / St Luke the evangelist
Tagalog (language)
in addition / extra
to raise salary
to increase (e.g. one's effort)
ply
(finance) to raise interest rates
to ratchet up / to raise (expectations etc) / to increase (a quota, a position in the market etc) / to up the ante / (computing) to encode
America
(botany) coca (loanword)
Sacramento
Bengal / Bangladesh
accelerator pedal
(Tw) Costa Rica
Tonga, South Pacific archipelago kingdom (Tw)
to reinforce (a structure) / to strengthen
plus sign + (math.)
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
(loanword) gallon
Gary (name)
potassium (loanword)
to double / to redouble
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
moreover; in addition to that
widen
Ghana
to crown / coronation

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