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(gèng) - even more, still more in Mandarin

gèng

Traditional: 更

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HSK 3
#157 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

even more, still more

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

Stroke order

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Examples

Even better.

This one is even more expensive.

He runs even faster.

Today is colder than yesterday.

I prefer drinking tea.

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

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 更.

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This word is part of lesson 4.