adverb #9,034

Meanings

  1. 1 the more... (the more...); increasingly
  2. 2 to heal; to recover

Examples

HSK 1
Yǔ yù xià yù dà.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier.
HSK 4
Tā de bìng yùláiyù yánzhòng le.
His illness is getting more and more serious.
HSK 6
Shāngkǒu yǐjīng quányù le.
The wound has fully healed.

Tips

grammar
...... is the literary equivalent of ...... (the more X, the more Y). sounds more formal and written; is the everyday spoken form.
memory
(heart radical) at the bottom + on top. When your heart heals (), things get increasingly better.

Components

radical
xīn
heart; mind
depicts the four chambers of a heart. As bottom radical it grounds in the inner-experience family. Healing happens in the heart-mind, and the comparative more-and-more is also tracked there as feelings shift in degree.
phonetic
to consent; surname; dugout boat
supplies the sound (yú drifted to yù). The same phonetic appears in . Originally depicted a hollowed dugout boat - a faint sense of passage from one state to another fits both the more-and-more and the recovery senses.

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