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
扩建
kuòjiàn
to expand or extend construction
Characters in this word
建 jiàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 廴 — to walk, to go
- Made of
- 廴 to walk, to go 聿 writing brush, pencil
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 医院扩建急诊楼后，夜间排队时间才明显缩短。 Yīyuàn kuòjiàn jízhěn lóu hòu, yèjiān páiduì shíjiān cái míngxiǎn suōduǎn. Only after the hospital expanded its emergency building did night-time waiting times clearly shorten.
- 学校准备扩建操场和食堂。 Xuéxiào zhǔnbèi kuòjiàn cāochǎng hé shítáng. The school is preparing to enlarge the playground and the canteen.
- 工人们正在扩建这条老公路。 Gōngrénmen zhèngzài kuòjiàn zhè tiáo lǎo gōnglù. Workers are widening this old highway.
Related words
- 扩大 kuòdà to expand; to enlarge
- 扩展 kuòzhǎn to expand; to extend
- 扩 kuò to expand; enlarge; extend
- 扩充 kuòchōng to expand; augment; enrich
- 扩散 kuòsàn to spread; diffuse; disseminate
- 扩张 kuòzhāng to expand; expansion
- 建 jiàn to build
- 建成 jiànchéng to finish building
- 建立 jiànlì to set up; to establish
- 建设 jiànshè to build; construction
- 建议 jiànyì suggestion; to suggest
- 建造 jiànzào to build