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
- —増減率rate of change
- —増加量increment; amount of increase
- —増量剤filler; extender; bulking agent
- —増醸酒zōjōshu; sake with added distilled alcohol, sweeteners, flavorings, etc.
- —大幅増substantial increase; large gain; huge increase
- —大増税large tax increase; tax hike
- —増上慢overconfidence; someone who is overconfident; wrongly believing to have attained enlightenment
- —増支部Samyutta Nikaya (Buddhist sutra); Gradual Collection; Numerical Discourses
- —自然増収natural or automatic increase in revenue
- —改訂増補revised and enlarged (edition)
- —人口増加increase in population; population growth
- —臨時増刊extra (special) issue (e.g. of a magazine)
- —軍事増強military build-up
- —増長天狗braggart; boaster; self-conceited person
- —増補改訂revising (and supplementing)
- —増収増益increase in income and profit
- —不増不減nothing increases or decreases (because all things are void)
- —需要増加increased demand; increasing demand
- —増分座標incremental coordinate
- —単調増加monotonic increase