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(gèng) - even more, still more in Mandarin

gèng

Traditional: 更

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HSK 3
#157 of 2,700Core 1000

Translation

even more, still more

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Word origin

The character 更 carries the 攴/攵 'action' element with a phonetic part; read geng it serves as the comparative adverb 'even more, still more'.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
更 (with 攴/攵 action element + phonetic); comparative reading geng

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Examples

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Even better.

。

This one is even more expensive.

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He runs even faster.

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Today is colder than yesterday.

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I prefer drinking tea.

更 (gèng) means even more, still more. It is used as a adverb in everyday Mandarin speech.

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Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 更.

更好gèng hǎobetter, even better更加gèng jiāeven more, all the more, still more

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This word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 7: 更, 最, 帮 and 8 more words.