Definition

1. Noun:

   • Buddhist monk: A male member of the Buddhist monastic community who has renounced worldly life to follow a religious path.

2. Verb:

   • To increase: To become or make something greater in size, amount, degree, or intensity.
   • To raise: To move something to a higher level, position, or value.
   • To enhance: To improve the quality, value, or extent of something.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Vị tăng đang tụng kinh. (The Buddhist monk is chanting sutras.)
• Verb:
  • Giá xăng lại tăng. (The price of gasoline has increased again.)
  • Công ty sẽ tăng lương cho nhân viên. (The company will raise salaries for its employees.)
  • Chúng ta cần tăng cường hợp tác. (We need to enhance our cooperation.)

Advanced Usage

• "tăng ca": to work overtime.
  • Tuần này tôi phải tăng ca ba bữa. (I have to work overtime three times this week.)
• "tăng tốc": to accelerate, to speed up.
  • Tài xế tăng tốc để vượt xe tải. (The driver accelerated to overtake the truck.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tăng lên (v): to go up, to rise (emphasizes the process of increasing).
  • Nhiệt độ tăng lên nhanh chóng. (The temperature rose quickly.)
• Gia tăng (v): to grow, to augment (often used for abstract or statistical increases).
  • Nguy cơ cháy rừng đang gia tăng. (The risk of forest fires is growing.)
• Tăng trưởng (v/n): to grow; growth (commonly used in economics and biology).
  • Kinh tế tăng trưởng ổn định. (The economy is growing steadily.)

Synonyms

• Increase: to become larger or greater.
• Raise: to lift or increase the level of something.
• Augment: to make something greater by adding to it.

Related Idioms

• Tăng bo: to increase significantly or excessively (colloquial).
  • Giá vé xem ca nhạc tăng bo so với năm ngoái. (Concert ticket prices have shot up compared to last year.)
• Càng tăng càng thấy thiếu: The more you have, the more you want (literally: the more it increases, the more you see a lack).
  • Lương cũng tăng, nhưng vẫn thấy thiếu, đúng là càng tăng càng thấy thiếu. (My salary increased, but I still feel it's not enough. It's true that the more you have, the more you want.)

noun

1. buddhist monk tank

verb

1. to increase