| 发展 | fā zhǎn | development / growth / to develop / to grow / to expand | ![]() |
| 成长 | chéng zhǎng | to mature / to grow / growth | ![]() |
| 生长 | shēng zhǎng | to grow / to grow up / to be brought up | ![]() |
| 种植 | zhòng zhí | to plant / to grow (a crop) / to cultivate | ![]() |
| 栽培 | zāi péi | to grow / to cultivate / to train / to educate / to patronize | ![]() |
| 增长 | zēng zhǎng | to grow / to increase | ![]() |
| 生出 | shēng chū | to give birth / to grow (whiskers etc) / to generate / to produce | ![]() |
| 盆栽 | pén zāi | to grow (a plant) in a pot / potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant) | ![]() |
| 栽种 | zāi zhòng | to plant / to grow | ![]() |
| 生 | shēng | to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student | ![]() |
| 滋长 | zī zhǎng | to grow (usually of abstract things) / to yield / to develop | ![]() |
| 种 | zhòng | to plant / to grow / to cultivate | ![]() |
| 长 | zhǎng | chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance | ![]() |
| 出落 | chū luò | to grow (prettier etc) / to mature into / to blossom | ![]() |
| 秀 | xiù | (bound form) refined / elegant / graceful / beautiful / (bound form) superior / excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow / to bloom / (of grain crops) to produce ears | ![]() |
| 殖 | zhí | to grow / to reproduce | ![]() |
| 滋 | zī | to grow / to nourish / to increase / to cause / juice / taste / (dialect) to spout / to spurt | ![]() |
| 蓄 | xù | to store up / to grow (e.g. a beard) / to entertain (ideas) | ![]() |
| 栽 | zāi | to plant / to grow / to insert / to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign) / to impose sth on sb / to stumble / to fall down | ![]() |
| 莳 | shì | (literary) to grow / (literary) to transplant / Taiwan pr. [shi2] | ![]() |
| 裁培 | cái péi | to grow (crop) / cultivation | ![]() |
| 播种 | bō zhòng | to grow (maize etc) from seed / to plant (maize etc) by sowing seed | ![]() |
