更 gèng

1. gèng adverb more / even more
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Comparison , Concept: Degree 程度
   Notes: (Guoyu '更' gèng adv 1; Kroll 2015 '更' gèng 1; Unihan '更'; XHZD '更' gèng 2)
2. gēng verb to change / to ammend
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 改换 (Guoyu '更' gēng v 1; Kroll 2015 '更' gēng 1; XHZD '更' gēng 1)
3. gēng noun a watch / a measure of time
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A two hour period of time used before China adopted the Western time system (Guoyu '更' gēng n 1; Kroll 2015 '更' gēng 4; XHZD '更' gēng 3)
4. gèng adverb again / also
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 更 is synonymous with 再 or 又 in this sense (Guoyu '更' gèng adv 2; Unihan '更'; XHZD '更' gèng 1).
5. gēng verb to experience
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 经历 (Kroll 2015 '更' gēng 3; XHZD '更' gēng 2)
6. gēng verb to improve
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '更' gēng 1a)
7. gēng verb to replace / to substitute
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 代替; for example, in the 千字文 ”Thousand Character Classic”, 晉楚更霸 'Chu replaced Jin as overlord' (Guoyu '更' gēng v 2; Kroll 2015 '更' gēng 2; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1946)
8. gēng verb to compensate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '更' gēng 2a)
9. gēng noun contacts
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Contacts of sense organs with objects (Ding '五更'; FGDB '五更'; Kroll 2015 '更' gēng 5)
10. gèng adverb furthermore / even if
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: In the sense of 即使 (Guoyu '更' gèng adv 6; Kroll 2015 '更' gèng 1b)
11. gèng adverb other
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '更' gèng 1c)
12. gèng verb to increase
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '更' gèng 2)
13. gēng noun forced military service
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 更赋 (Guoyu '更' gēng n 2)
14. gēng proper noun Geng
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '更' gēng n 3)
15. gèng adverb finally / eventually
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 终于 (Guoyu '更' gèng adv 3)
16. jīng verb to experience
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 经历 (Guoyu '更' jīng)

Contained in

• 更有什者(更有甚者) furthermore
• 知更鸟(知更鳥) redbreast / robin
• 更代 substitution / replacing former general / change of leader
• 更博 to update one's blog
• 更始 to make a new start / to regenerate
• 更递(更遞) to change / to substitute
• 深更半夜 in the dead of night
• 更深人静(更深人靜) deep at night and all is quiet
• 更漏 water clock used to mark night watches
• 过程比终点更美(過程比終點更美) The process is more beautiful than the outcome. / It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
• 炒更 to moonlight
• 屋漏更遭连夜雨(屋漏更遭連夜雨) when it rains, it pours
• 更上一层楼(更上一層樓) to take it up a notch / to bring it up a level
• 打更 to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
• 更新 to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to regenerate
• 更高性能 high performance
• 更迭 to alternate
• 更变(更變) to change
• 行不更名，坐不改姓 I am who I am (and I'm not ashamed) / to be proud of one's name and stand by one's actions
• 初更 first watch
• 狄更斯 Dickens
• 更次 one watch
• 更生 to be reborn / to be regenerated
• 更名 to change name
• 半夜三更 in the depth of night / late at night
• 三更半夜 in the depth of the night / very late at night
• 都更案 urban development project
• 带着希望去旅行，比到达终点更美好(帶著希望去旅行，比到達終點更美好) It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
• 更易 to replace
• 更正 to correct / to revise / revised
• 更换(更換) to replace
• 更番 to alternate
• 更鼓 drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
• 动态更新(動態更新) dynamic update (Internet)
• 更改 to alter
• 二更 second watch
• 更年期 menopause / andropause
• 更多 more
• 更赋(更賦) forced military service
• 更张(更張) to restring one's bow / to reform and start over again
• 三更灯火五更鸡(三更燈火五更雞) go to sleep late and get up early
• 更新版 new edition / new version / update
• 路上比终点更有意义(路上比終點更有意義) The road means more than the destination. / It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
• 一更 first watch
• 更衣 to change clothes ; a changing room ; to go to the toilet
• 更动(更動) to change / to replace / to alter
• 万象更新(萬象更新) nature takes on a new look
• 百尺竿头，更尽一步(百尺竿頭，更盡一步) hundred foot pole, progress still further / much accomplished, still some work to do / to continue to further successes

Also contained in

惠更斯 、 刘更生 、 查尔斯·狄更斯

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