CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

加大

jiādà

to increase (e.g. one's effort)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to increase (e.g. one's effort)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 加大 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 加大 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

政府应该加大对农业的投资。zhèng fǔ yīng gāi jiā dà duì nóng yè de tóu zī。

The government should invest more money in agriculture.

你会用糖果加大棒的方式使人产生动力嘛？nǐ huì yòng táng guǒ jiā dà bàng de fāng shì shǐ rén chǎn shēng dòng lì ma？

No published English translation for this sentence.

有平时不好也不坏，仅仅是完成上司交予的任务的员工，有因运用糖果加大棒的方法轻松地提高工作热情，而做出超乎预期的工作效果的员工，相反地，也有因为伤了员工面子，而作出敌对公司的事情的员工。yǒu píng shí bù hǎo yě bù huài， jǐn jǐn shì wán chéng shàng sī jiāo yǔ de rèn wù de yuán gōng， yǒu yīn yùn yòng táng guǒ jiā dà bàng de fāng fǎ qīng sōng dì tí gāo gōng zuò rè qíng， ér zuò chū chāo hū yù qī de gōng zuò xiào guǒ de yuán gōng， xiāng fǎn dì， yě yǒu yīn wèi shāng le yuán gōng miàn zi， ér zuò chū dí duì gōng sī de shì qíng de yuán gōng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 加大.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 加大.

Directly before

糖果加大2
应该加大1

Directly after

加大棒2
加大对1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 加大

What does 加大 mean in Chinese?

加大 (jiādà) means to increase (e.g. one's effort).

How do you pronounce 加大?

加大 is pronounced jiādà.

Is 加大 an HSK word?

加大 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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