增

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

15 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,032 U+589E

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

土 (semantic, “earth”) + 曾 (phonetic, céng)

components: 土曾

increase · Heisig RSH #503

土 soil + increase

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 曾

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 曾 (céng) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
曾 sound component	céng	already, formerly, once; the past
僧	sēng	Buddhist priest, monk
赠	zèng	to bestow, to confer, to present a gift
蹭	cèng	to shuffle; to procrastinate, to freeload, to dilly-dally
憎	zēng	to abhor, to detest, to hate
噌	cēng	to scold, to shout at
缯	zēng	silk; to tie, to bind; surname
罾	zēng	a large square net for catching fish
甑	zèng	a boiler for steaming rice

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
增长天	Zēng zhǎng tiān	Virudhaka (one of the Heavenly Kings)
增城区	Zēng chéng Qū	Zengcheng, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市\|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong
骨质增生	gǔ zhì zēng shēng	(medicine) hyperostosis
单核细胞增多症	dān hé xì bāo zēng duō zhèng	mononucleosis
经济增长	jīng jì zēng zhǎng	economic growth
经济增长率	jīng jì zēng zhǎng lǜ	economic growth rate
增白剂	zēng bái jì	whitener; whitening agent
有增无减	yǒu zēng wú jiǎn	to increase without letup; to get worse and worse (idiom)
经济增加值	jīng jì zēng jiā zhí	Economic value added, EVA
几何级数增长	jǐ hé jí shù zēng zhǎng	exponential increase
增大	zēng dà	to enlarge; to amplify; to magnify
增量参数	zēng liàng cān shù	incremental parameter
增生	zēng shēng	(medicine) hyperplasia; a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who …
增强现实	zēng qiáng xiàn shí	(computing) augmented reality; AR
增长率	zēng zhǎng lǜ	growth rate (esp. in economics)
增高	zēng gāo	to heighten; to raise; to increase; to rise
增长	zēng zhǎng	to grow; to increase
增重粉	zēng zhòng fěn	gainer (supplement)
日益增加	rì yì zēng jiā	to increase daily
日增	rì zēng	increasing by the day