Chinese symbol for “incremental”
递增
dì zēng
Traditional: 遞增
to increase by degrees; in increasing order; incremental; progressive
The closest CC-CEDICT match for incremental is 递增 (dì zēng), defined as: to increase by degrees; in increasing order; incremental; progressive.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 递增.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 传递 (傳遞) | chuán dì | to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive |
| 快递 (快遞) | kuài dì | express delivery |
| 递交 (遞交) | dì jiāo | to present; to give |
| 递给 (遞給) | dì gěi | to hand it (i.e. the aforementioned item) to (sb) |
| 递减 (遞減) | dì jiǎn | progressively decreasing; gradually falling |
| 增加 | zēng jiā | to raise; to increase |
| 增长 (增長) | zēng zhǎng | to grow; to increase |
| 增强 (增強) | zēng qiáng | to increase; to strengthen |
See also: Japanese symbol for “incremental”.
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.