Chinese symbol for “increasingly”
越发
yuè fā
Traditional: 越發
increasingly; more and more
The closest CC-CEDICT match for increasingly is 越发 (yuè fā), defined as: increasingly; more and more.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “increasingly”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 愈益 | yù yì | increasingly; more and more |
| 益发 (益發) | yì fā | increasingly; more and more |
| 益加 | yì jiā | increasingly; more and more |
| 日益 | rì yì | day by day; more and more |
| 愈发 (愈發) | yù fā | all the more; increasingly |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 越发.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 越来越 (越來越) | yuè lái yuè | more and more |
| 超越 | chāo yuè | to surpass; to exceed; to transcend |
| 穿越 | chuān yuè | to traverse; to pass through; to cross; time travel (as a genre of fiction) |
| 跨越 | kuà yuè | to step across; step over |
| 优越 (優越) | yōu yuè | superior; superiority |
| 卓越 | zhuó yuè | outstanding; surpassing |
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
See also: Japanese symbol for “increasingly”.
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.