How to say it in Chinese

Increase in Chinese

to increase · HSK 3

提高 tí gāo

  1. 提 tí to lift
  2. 高 gāo high

我想提高我的中文水平。 I want to improve my Chinese.

Hear 提高 and see more sentences

Other ways to say increase

More words with 提 or 高

How do you say increase in Chinese?

Increase in Chinese is 提高 (tí gāo). You can also say 增加 (zēng jiā), 增长 (zēng zhǎng), 增 (zēng), 添 (tiān).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

More free tools

Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.

Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.