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
- —減封forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain
- —減胎selective reduction; multifetal pregnancy reduction
- —損減decreasing; diminishing; abating; shortening; impairment
- —減災natural disaster reduction; reduction of the effects of a natural disaster
- —減設removal (of equipment, facilities, etc.); scaling back; downgrading
- —減輝decalescence
- —減磁demagnetization
- —減容volume reduction; reducing volume
- —減便reduction in service (flights, buses, etc.)
- —減歩reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses
- —減流current reduction (usu. electrical)
- —減肉pipe wall thinning
- —減枠reduction (of an allowance, limit, quota, etc.)
- —減音dampening (sound); diminishing (chord, interval)
- —減築reducing the floor space when remodeling a building
- —減力reduction (of a negative)
- —減泊shortening one's stay (at a hotel, etc.)
- —減薬dose reduction (esp. of antipsychotic drugs); tapering off medication
- —減軽lessening; reduction; alleviation; reduction (of a sentence); mitigation (of a penalty)
- —塩加減seasoning with salt; amount of salt