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添 tiān to add

to add; to append; to increase; to replenish

How to remember 添: 氵 water + 天 day + ⺗ heart = to add. Grandma pours more water into the soup, tastes it for the third time that day and decides with all her heart to add one more pinch of salt.

  • HSK 6
  • 11 strokes
  • Radical 氵

Component breakdown

添 = 氵 water + 忝

  • 氵 water
  • 忝
    • 天 day
      • 一 one
      • 大 big
    • ⺗ heart
The Gushi story

Grandma pours more water into the soup, tastes it for the third time that day and decides with all her heart to add one more pinch of salt.

How it is used

  • To add/append - 添加 (tiānjiā) to add, 增添 (zēngtiān) to add/increase (增添色彩 add color/vibrancy).
  • 添麻烦 (tiān máfan) = to cause (someone) trouble; 添 often adds something extra onto what's there.
  • 添加剂 (tiānjiājì) = an additive (in food/products).
  • 画蛇添足 (huàshé-tiānzú) 'draw legs on a snake' = to ruin by adding the superfluous; contrast 锦上添花 (jǐnshàng-tiānhuā) to add to something already good.

Words with 添