加法

jiāfǎ

noun #30,909

Meanings

1 addition (the arithmetic operation)

Characters

Examples

小学一年级开始学加法。

Xiǎoxué yī niánjí kāishǐ xué jiāfǎ.

Children start learning addition in first grade.

这道题用加法就能解出来。

Zhè dào tí yòng jiāfǎ jiù néng jiě chūlái.

This problem can be solved with addition.

Tips

memory

The four basic arithmetic operations form a clean set: 加法 jiāfǎ (addition), 减法 jiǎnfǎ (subtraction), 乘法 chéngfǎ (multiplication), 除法 chúfǎ (division). The pattern is verb + 法 'method'.

Stroke Order

加 jiā

法 fǎ