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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 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
to heat
HSK 5
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
(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 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 intensify / to speed up / to step up
HSK 7-9
to intensify
HSK 7-9
California
Canada
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *加* | 加* | *加
Canada (abbr. for 加拿大) / surname Jia
to raise salary
acceleration
Caracas, capital of Venezuela
Gabon
Katō (Japanese surname)
franchise store
accelerator (computing) / particle accelerator
Caribbean Sea
Calvin (1509-1564), French protestant reformer
to work extra hours / to do overtime
to increase a price
Gabon (Tw)
Kathmandu, capital of Nepal
to increase (e.g. one's effort)
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
(Tw) intensive care unit (ICU)
to reinforce (a structure) / to strengthen
plus sign + (math.)
(loanword) gallon
Gary (name)
potassium (loanword)
to double / to redouble
moreover; in addition to that
widen
Ghana
to crown / coronation
(math.) to weight / weighting / weighted (average, index etc)
overtime pay
University of California (abbr. for 加利福尼亞大學|加利福尼亚大学)
California
Canada
Gabriel (name) / Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation
Garfield (comic strip cat created by Jim Davis)
to make text bold
cannon (loanword)
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
Calcutta (India)
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: the four basic operations of arithmetic
Gardner (name)
promotion to the nobility (idiom)
to increase efforts / to make extra efforts
extra bus or train
to get a better grasp of sth
addend; summand
to confer a title an official position
to feed in / to load (raw material, supplies, fuel etc) / to supply / fortified (with added material)
Canary Islands
value added network / VAN
to increase a bet; to raise (poker); to raise the stakes
to add; to augment; to increase
intensive care (in hospital)
to seal up (a door with a paper seal, or a document) / to confer an additional title on a nobleman
promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
to be promoted / additional government post
Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
to expedite / (of a delivery etc) expedited / express / urgent
Caroline Islands
to injure
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
Ghazni or Ghaznah province of Afghanistan
to add interest (to a story) / to sex up
to push into a line out of turn; to cut in line; to jump the queue
Cardiff
paying special care / with particular attention
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Russian cosmonaut, first human in space
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
to raise one's pay
a cut above / top quality
cryptocurrency
bonus point; extra credit / to award bonus points; to earn extra points
cannon (loanword)
humidifier
Galicia, province and former kingdom of northwest Spain
Epistle of St Paul to the Galatians
to have an extra meal / snack
to calculate the total / sum; total
(finance) to increase one's position
Gaza (territory adjacent to Israel and Egypt)
to lengthen

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