HSK 6 · Verbs

扩张 kuòzhāng “to expand” in Chinese

Traditional 擴張

What 扩张 means

  1. to expand
  2. to enlarge
  3. expansion
  4. dilation
  5. to expand (e.g. one’s power or influence)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to broaden

How to say 扩张

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale张zhāng1st tone, high and level

扩张 in a sentence

  1. 城市扩张会对环境造成破坏。

    Chéngshì kuòzhāng huì duì huánjìng zàochéng pòhuài.

    Urban sprawl damages the environment.

    Sentence #13180229 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 扩张 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 张 (zhāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
张zhāngto open up
  • 弓bow · gōngMeaning part
  • 长long · chángSound part

弓 hints at the meaning (bow); 长 (cháng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhāng.

How to write 扩张

扩 6 strokes · 张 7 strokes

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

Words related to 扩张

Words with 扩

扩大kuòdà · to expand扩充kuòchōng · to expand扩散kuòsàn · to spread

Words with 张

张zhāng · mw for flat objects紧张jǐnzhāng · nervous主张zhǔzhāng · to advocate夸张kuāzhāng · to exaggerate慌张huāngzhāng · flustered东张西望dōngzhāngxīwàng · to look around in all directions

More words: Common Verbs

亏待kuīdài · to treat unfairly捆绑kǔnbǎng · to tie up扩充kuòchōng · to expand扩散kuòsàn · to spread捞lāo · to fish out晾liàng · to dry in the air or sun淋lín · to drench领先lǐngxiān · to lead

FAQs

扩张 (kuòzhāng) means “to expand” or “to enlarge”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kuòzhāng: kuò with a 4th tone, then zhāng with a 1st 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, 扩张 is written 擴張. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuozhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 扩张 from the suggestions. Typing kuozhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
扩张 is an HSK 6 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.