Chinese symbol for “expand”
扩大
kuò dà
Traditional: 擴大
to expand; to enlarge; to broaden one's scope
The closest CC-CEDICT match for expand is 扩大 (kuò dà), defined as: to expand; to enlarge; to broaden one's scope.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “expand”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拓展 | tuò zhǎn | to expand; to extend; to broaden (client base, outlook, territory etc); (computing) to scale up; to increase system capacity |
| 膨胀 (膨脹) | péng zhàng | to expand; to inflate |
| 扩充 (擴充) | kuò chōng | to expand |
| 拓 | tuò | to expand; to push sth with the hand |
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 扩大.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扩展 (擴展) | kuò zhǎn | to extend; to expand |
| 扩张 (擴張) | kuò zhāng | expansion; dilation |
| 扩散 (擴散) | kuò sàn | to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse |
| 扩建 (擴建) | kuò jiàn | to extend (a building, an airport runway etc) |
| 扩充 (擴充) | kuò chōng | to expand |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
See also: Japanese symbol for “expand”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.