愈

1. Recovery from illness or the healing of a wound.

2. Increase in degree, surpassing a previous state, or exceeding a limit.

• Adverb of degree: Indicates intensification (e.g., "even more," "further").
• Correlative structure: Used in the pattern 愈... 愈... ("the more [X], the more [Y]").

Functional overlap with 逾 (to cross a boundary or overstep). If neither healing nor incremental increase fits the context, consider the sense of "crossing a threshold" or "transgressing."

• Fanqie reading: 以主.

// Tang-period reading: //iǒ.

• Semantic variant: U+6109.

The choice between "recover" and "increase" is typically determined by the domain: lean toward recovery in medical contexts and intensification in abstract or comparative contexts.