Top 1000 Chinese words 501 - 550

见, like 到, can be used as a complement of result to express that an action has reached its result. Thus to say "hear" you use the word 听见 (or 听到), "to see" is 看见 (or 看到)

remember: the measure word for 比赛 is 次 or 场！

if you analyse each character singularly you can see that 加 means "to add", while 快 means "speed, fast". Hence, the two words together literally mean "to add speed"