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title: "A 比 B 更/还 + adjective in Chinese Grammar: Even more … than …, With Examples"
description: "A 比 B 更/还 + adjective: even more … than …. 比 B 更/还 + adjective: A exceeds B, often surprisingly. 4 real lines from stories, each word explained."
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# A 比 B 更/还 + adjective

Even more … than …

比 B 更/还 + adjective: A exceeds B, often surprisingly.

## In stories

“还有，它今年六十岁了，**比我爸爸还大**！”

[比爸爸还大 · My pet is older than my dad](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/my-pet-in-chinese-short-story#library-word-198-204) HSK 2

只有一百克，**比一个苹果还小**！

[大熊猫的小秘密 · Fun facts about giant pandas](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/fun-facts-about-giant-pandas#library-word-42-49) HSK 3

太上老君说：“他吃了我的金丹，身体**比石头还硬**。

[大闹天宫 · Havoc in Heaven](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/havoc-in-heaven-journey-to-the-west-easy-chinese-7#library-word-687-692) HSK 3

可是，每年想去的年轻人很多，**比军队需要的人还多**。

[在中国，一定要当兵吗？ · Is military service compulsory in China?](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/is-military-service-compulsory-in-china#library-word-60-69) HSK 3

[Read 比爸爸还大](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/my-pet-in-chinese-short-story#library-word-198-204)

## More patterns

- [A 比 B + adjective more … than …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/bi)
- [A 比 B + adjective + amount more … than …, by …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/bi-amount)
- [还没…，…就… before … (had even happened), … already](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/haimei-jiu)
- [A 还是 B? (choice question) … or …? (choose one)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/haishi-or)
- [一 + measure word + 比 + 一 + measure word each one more … than the one before (every one of them)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/yi-bi-yi-each)
- [A 比 B + adjective + 多了/得多 much more … than …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/bi-duo-le)

## What does A 比 B 更/还 + adjective mean in Chinese?

Even more … than …. 比 B 更/还 + adjective: A exceeds B, often surprisingly.

## How common is A 比 B 更/还 + adjective?

It comes up in 36 readings of the 392 stories and articles in our free Library.

## Does it correct my mistakes?

No. It shows which patterns a text uses and what each one does; it doesn’t mark errors. Paste a sentence you wrote to see whether it uses the pattern you meant.

## More free tools

- [Chinese dictionary](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-dictionary)
- [Measure words](https://mandarinthewild.com/measure-words)
- [How hard is this text?](https://mandarinthewild.com/text-level)
- [Free Chinese stories](https://mandarinthewild.com/library)

Patterns found by our own parser; lines from our free Library.