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減 kanji
dwindle, decrease, reduce, decline, curtail, get hungry
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ゲン
Kun readings
へるへらす
Variant forms
减Words with 減
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —減基数の補数diminished radix complement; radix-minus-one complement
- —顆粒球減少症agranulocytosis
- —高性能減水剤superplasticizer
- —ほろ酔い加減state of slight intoxication; being a little drunk
- —血小板減少症thrombocytopenia
- —単調減少数列monotonically decreasing sequence
- —汎血球減少症pancytopenia
- —白血球減少症leukopenia; leucopenia
- —環境負荷低減environmental burden reduction; environmental impact reduction
- —いい加減にするto put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
- —脳脊髄液減少症cerebrospinal fluid hypovolemia; CSF hypovolemia; intracranial hypotension syndrome
- —収穫逓減の法則law of diminishing returns; law of diminishing marginal returns
- —減光フィルターneutral-density filter
- —課徴金減免制度leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement
- —死一等を減ずるto commute a death sentence to life imprisonment
- —住宅ローン減税tax deduction on housing loans
- —戦略兵器削減条約Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty; START
- —ええ加減にしいやshape up!; act properly!
- —いい加減にしなさいshape up!; act properly!
- —二酸化炭素削減義務carbon dioxide reducing obligation