Kanji1 / 14
増 kanji
increase, add, augment, gain, promote
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ゾウ
Kun readings
ますましふえるふやす
Variant forms
增Words with 増
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —増increase
- —加増increase; addition
- —漸増gradual increase
- —増援reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
- —増刊special issue (of a magazine, etc.); issuing an extra number
- —増築addition to a building
- —増長growing impudent; becoming arrogant; getting stuck-up; becoming more severe; increasing
- —増訂revision and expansion (of a work); revision and enlargement
- —増幅amplification; magnification; amplification; making larger
- —増分increment; change; increment
- —逓増gradual increase
- —増置establishment of more (offices)
- —純増net increase
- —累増successive or progressive increases; cumulative increase
- —増俸salary increase; raise
- —増血increase of blood
- —増兵military reinforcement
- —増便increase in the number of flights
- —増派reinforcements
- —増配increased ration; increased dividend