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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
- —減耗natural decrease
- —減債partial payment of a debt; reduction of a debt
- —減摩reduction in friction; lubrication
- —減水subsiding of water
- —減号minus sign
- —減作poor crop; diminished yield
- —減等reduction; mitigation; commutation; demotion
- —減損decrease; diminution; loss; impairment
- —減塩reduction of salt; sodium restriction
- —減算subtraction
- —急減rapid decrease; sharp reduction; sudden drop; recession
- —累減regressive
- —減色reduced colours; reduced colors
- —純減net reduction; net decrease
- —減感desensitization; hyposensitization
- —微減slight reduction; small decrease
- —減却reduction; decrease
- —減光light reduction; dimming of a light; extinction
- —減弱reduction; weakening; attenuation; diminution; diminishment; lessening
- —減車reduction in the number of vehicles, carriages, etc.; reduction in vehicle runs (bus, taxi, etc.)