Kanji1 / 12
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
- —低減Populardecrease; reduction; fall; depreciation; mitigation
- —半減Popularreduction by half; halving
- —減員Popularreduction of staff
- —減益Populardecrease in profits
- —減給Popularpay cut; salary cut
- —減価償却Populardepreciation
- —いい加減にしろPopularthat's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!
- —減reduction; decrease; subtraction; reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryō codes)
- —減圧decompression
- —減価price reduction; depreciation; abatement
- —減刑reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence
- —減資reduction of capital
- —減食cutting down on food intake; reducing rations; reducing allowance of food
- —減衰attenuation; damping; decay
- —減数decreasing in number; subtrahend
- —減配reduction in a dividend; smaller ration
- —減法subtraction
- —逓減gradual decrease; gradual diminution
- —減殺lessening; diminishing; reducing
- —縮減reduction; diminishment; contraction