扩展 (kuò zhǎn) — Chinese Word

verb HSK 5

Traditional 擴展

kuò zhǎn

to expand · to extend · to enlarge · expansion

Meaning

扩展 means to make something bigger in scope, scale, or range. It's commonly used for expanding businesses, territories, knowledge, influence, or physical spaces. The word emphasizes growth and extension beyond original boundaries.

Usage

扩展 is frequently used in business, technology, and academic contexts. It often appears with objects like 业务 (business), 规模 (scale), 市场 (market), or 领域 (field). More formal than 扩大 in technical contexts, though they overlap in meaning.

Examples

01
公司计划明年扩展海外市场。
Gōng sī jì huà míng nián kuò zhǎn hǎi wài shì chǎng.
The company plans to expand into overseas markets next year.
02
我们需要扩展词汇量来提高中文水平。
Wǒ men xū yào kuò zhǎn cí huì liàng lái tí gāo Zhōng wén shuǐ píng.
We need to expand our vocabulary to improve our Chinese proficiency.

Characters

Common collocations

扩展业务
kuò zhǎn yè wù
to expand business
扩展市场
kuò zhǎn shì chǎng
to expand the market
扩展规模
kuò zhǎn guī mó
to expand scale
扩展知识面
kuò zhǎn zhī shi miàn
to broaden one's knowledge

Antonyms

Origin

Both characters relate to spreading outward: 扩 contains the hand radical (扌) suggesting physical enlargement, while 展 originally depicted unrolling something flat.