扩 kuò
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 广 broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
扩展
kuòzhǎn
to expand; to extend
Characters in this word
展 zhǎn
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 尸 — body, corpse
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我想扩展词汇。 Wǒ xiǎng kuò zhǎn cí huì. I want to expand my vocabulary.
- 学校扩展课程。 Xué xiào kuò zhǎn kè chéng. The school expands its courses.
- 业务正在扩展。 Yè wù zhèng zài kuò zhǎn. The business is expanding now.
Related words
- 扩大 kuòdà to expand; to enlarge
- 发展 fāzhǎn to develop
- 进展 jìnzhǎn progress; development
- 开展 kāizhǎn to carry out; to develop
- 展开 zhǎnkāi to unfold; to begin
- 展览 zhǎnlǎn exhibition
- 展示 zhǎnshì to show
- 展现 zhǎnxiàn to show; to reveal
- 促进 cùjìn to promote; to improve
- 统一 tǒngyī to unite; to make consistent
- 促使 cùshǐ to urge; to cause
- 分散 fēnsàn to scatter; to distract