to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)

many; much; more; a lot of / too many; in excess / (after a numeral) ... odd / how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) / (bound form) multi-; poly-

still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else

to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts

to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來｜回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來｜自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世｜来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來｜谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來｜吃不来)

again; once more; re- / further; beyond this point of time / (before an adjective) more / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 or 都 for emphasis) / (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則｜再则, 再就是 etc) / (literary) to reappear; to reoccur

house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層｜层, 座, 棟｜栋

almost / nearly / more or less / about the same / good enough / not bad

again; once more; re-

to exceed / to climb over / to surpass / the more... the more

Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典｜词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本

that level or higher; that amount or more / the above-mentioned / (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.

only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival)

more and more

more / even more / further / still / still more

strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強｜百强

to go a step further / (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further

barely / only / merely / only (this and nothing more)

more (than sth else) / even more

usually / in many cases / more often than not

especially; particularly; even more than usual / extra; additional

to lift / to raise / (of two or more persons) to carry

to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable

once more; once again

only; merely; nothing but; no more than / it's just that ...

more or less; roughly; approximately

(broadly) prose (as opposed to verse) / (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections

incessantly / without end / more than / not limited to

greater than; bigger than; more than

even more (so)

a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟｜栋, 幢, 座

to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery) / to make oneself more attractive / to beautify

to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides

no more; no longer

work more and get more

extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me

double / twice / simultaneous / holding two or more (official) posts at the same time

achievement; accomplishment / (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results

to make more beautiful / to decorate / embellishment

(increasing) day by day / (more critical) with every passing day / gradually

to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points / to nail / to pin / to staple / to sew on

to ease (tension) / to alleviate / to moderate / to allay / to make more mild

that's all / nothing more

classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個｜个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy

increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more

day by day / more and more / increasingly / more and more with each passing day

over fifty percent / more than half

to be excessive; to be more than is required

more and more

to get out of a predicament / to stick out / to take the initiative / remaining odd fraction after a division / a little more than

to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)

more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)

to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc)

to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about

let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more

ever more critical / problems get more and more intense

(idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement

more or less

in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole / overall situation; the big picture / cadaver for dissection in training medical students

once more; once again; one more time

say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject

to match one's strength with / to compete / more competitive / to set oneself against sb / disobliging / to make a special effort

increasingly / more and more

(of a product, service etc) worth more than the cost; great value for the money spent

(of fuse wire) to melt; to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID)

(Buddhism) to be reincarnated; (fig.) to be lenient; to spare sb / to have more children than allowed under family planning policy

benefit / profit / advantage / beneficial / to increase / to add / all the more

food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high

lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject / uninspired imitation

vying to be the most glamorous / each more gorgeous than the other / beauty contest

see you tomorrow / (coll., jocular) food that passes through the digestive system more or less intact (esp. enoki mushrooms)

even more

a bit; a little bit / (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit / (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er / a point (in a discussion etc) / (calligraphy) dot stroke (、) / one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾｜一点钟)

to join in the fun / to get in on the action / (fig.) to butt in / to create more trouble

to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together

to pay extra; to pay more

common word for ladybug, more formally 瓢蟲｜瓢虫

seat of honor / person in a high-ranking position / to be promoted to a more senior role / (genetics) epistatic

many / much / a lot / lots and lots / more / even more

more than / greater than

phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夾｜夹 is more common

(of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition

peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)

(loanword) genus Tillandsia; air plants (more commonly known as 空氣鳳梨｜空气凤梨)

more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth

the more...(the more...) / to recover / to heal / better

item (in a program of entertainments) / trick (act of mischief) / worthwhile result / accomplishment / sth significant but not immediately apparent / sth more than meets the eye

(originally) to provide assistance / (more recently) to show one's support (for a singing idol etc)

spendthrift and foolish / sb with more money than sense

dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone) / (fig.) (coll.) knowledge presented in readily assimilable form; just what you want to know: no more, no less (no padding 水分)

(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition

paying more attention to a lover than friends (idiom) / to value sex over friendship

full / to fill / completely / more

manhole cover (more formally, 窨井蓋｜窨井盖)

a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold

(coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle)

to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc) / to retouch a photo to make sb look more beautiful / beautiful face / beautified face

not beyond the scope of / nothing more than

to wander about / to roam / to move back and forth between (government and academia, two or more countries etc) / to flow through (a circuit, a network, the body) / to skirt (the border of legality) / (of a singer's voice) to move within its range / (of a stock price) to fluctuate within (a range)

pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks