jiā
加 (jiā) is a Chinese word meaning “to add; (math.) plus; to increase; to augment”.
Meanings
- 1to add
- 2(math.) plus
- 3to increase; to augment
- 4(used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")
- Part of speech
- verb