愈来愈
yūláiyū · HSK 7
more and more
📈 愈来愈 = more + come + more; the same word brackets 来 (come) to mean ever-increasingly
来 — pictograph of a wheat plant with grain heads
来 originally depicted a stalk of wheat with drooping grain heads, and meant 'wheat' in oracle bone script. It was later borrowed phonetically to write the unrelated verb 'to come,' which became its dominant meaning. The original 'wheat' sense was taken over by 麥 (now 麦).