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
- —増量increase in amount; increase in quantity; increase in volume
- —増補extending (e.g. a book); augmenting; enlarging; supplementing
- —増給salary increase
- —増結adding train cars
- —増徴collection of additional taxes
- —微増slight increase; marginal rise
- —増感sensitization; hypersensitization
- —増床expansion (in space) of a sales area; increase in the number of beds (in a hospital, etc.)
- —増勢increasing trend
- —増作good crop; increased yield
- —増車increase in the number of vehicles, trains, etc.; increase in runs (bus, etc.)
- —増白brightening
- —増成expansion; build-up; hyperplasia; Aufbau (principle)
- —増備adding equipment (esp. rolling stock); increase
- —増枠quota increase; allowance increase; limit increase; increase in one's share
- —増毛hair replacement; hair restoration
- —増悪worsening; deterioration; exacerbation; aggravation (of a disease)
- —爆増explosive growth
- —著増sharp rise; increasing considerably; growing conspicuously
- —増刊号special issue; extra issue; special number