新增 (xīn zēng) — newly added, newly increased

Definition

adjective

newly addednewly increased

Examples

新增。
Zuì jìn xīn zēng bìng lì míng xiǎn jiǎn shǎo.
Recently, newly added cases have clearly decreased.
新增。
Zhè ge bǎn běn de xīn zēng gōng néng fēi cháng shí yòng.
The new features in this version are very practical.
新增。
Gōng sī jīn nián de xīn zēng yòng hù shù liàng hěn dà.
The number of new users for the company this year is very large.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

新xīnnewly

增zēngincrease

新 (newly) and 增 (increase) together mean something newly added or increased.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

斤斤jīn

Sound part声符shēngfú

辛

辛xīn新xīn

Same sound today

The shape originally paired 斤, for chopping wood, with 辛 for sound. It was borrowed for its sound to write 新, so the chopping-wood parts are unrelated to 'new'.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

土曾增

Meaning part形符xíngfú

土土tǔearth

Sound part声符shēngfú

曾

曾céng增zēng

Same sound today

增 uses 土 (earth) to show that things grow in earth or are built from earth, and uses 曾 for the sound. This gives the sense of adding or increasing.

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