HSK 5 · Verbs

扩大 kuòdà “to expand” in Chinese

Traditional 擴大

What 扩大 means

  1. to expand
  2. to enlarge
  3. to broaden one’s scope

How to say 扩大

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale扩kuò4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale大dà4th tone, falling

扩大 in a sentence

  1. 最近，来自亚洲各国的进口额不断扩大。

    Zuìjìn, láizì Yàzhōu gè guó de jìnkǒu'é búduàn kuòdà.

    Imports from Asian countries have been growing steadily lately.

    Sentence #844577 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他试图扩大自己的势力范围。

    Tā shìtú kuòdà zìjǐ de shìlì fànwéi.

    He tried to expand his sphere of influence.

    Sentence #1883635 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 扩大 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 扩 (kuò) with each of its parts in a different colour
扩kuòto enlarge
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuSound part
  • 广shelter · guǎngMeaning part

广 hints at the meaning (shelter); 扌 (shǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with kuò.

The character 大 (dà) with each of its parts in a different colour
大dàbig; large; great
  • 一one · yī
  • 人person · rén

Memory aidA person standing with arms stretched wide: big.

How to write 扩大

扩 6 strokes · 大 3 strokes

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扩大 (kuòdà) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 扩大 (kuòdà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 扩大

Words with 扩

扩充kuòchōng · to expand扩散kuòsàn · to spread扩张kuòzhāng · to expand

Words with 大

大dà · big大学dàxué · university大学生dàxuéshēng · university student大家dàjiā · everyone大人dàren · adult大衣dàyī · overcoat大小dàxiǎo · size大熊猫dàxióngmāo · giant panda大夫dàifu · doctor大概dàgài · roughly

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FAQs

扩大 (kuòdà) means “to expand” or “to enlarge”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it kuòdà: kuò with a 4th tone, then dà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 扩大 is written 擴大. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuoda with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 扩大 from the suggestions. Typing kuoda into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
扩大 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.