更
gèng · HSK 2
still/even more
➕ sounds like 'gain' — gain more, even more
更 (gèng) means 'even more' or 'further'. Sound hook: 'gèng' rhymes with English 'gain' — to gain more of something. As an adverb it stacks intensity onto an adjective: 好 good → 更好 even better.
更 — 丙 (bǐng) phonetic + 攴/攵 (action/strike)
Originally an oracle-bone graph showing a hand striking a watch-drum to mark night watches, hence 'to change shifts.' From this came the meanings 'to change' and 'to replace' (gēng). The reading gèng later developed the sense 'further, even more,' as in 'one watch further on.'