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
- —荷重減衰weight decay
- —負担軽減burden reduction; alleviation of a burden
- —人口減少depopulation; falling population; decrease in population; population decline
- —一増一減16,800,000-year period over which a human lifespan increases from ten years to 84,000 years (by one year per century) and then decreases back to ten (by one year per century)
- —体重減少weight loss; weight reduction; weight decrease
- —大幅削減sharp reduction; drastic cut
- —需要減少reduced demand; decline in demand
- —軽減措置relief measure; mitigation measure
- —減税政策tax cut policy; tax reduction policy; tax-abatement policy
- —減胎手術selective reduction operation; multifetal pregnancy reduction
- —減収減益decrease in income and profit
- —軽減税率reduced tax rate
- —酌量減軽reduction of punishment in the light of extenuating circumstances
- —減三和音diminished chord; diminished triad
- —単調減少monotonic decrease
- —減塩醤油low-salt soy sauce (containing less than 9% salt)
- —減農薬米rice grown with reduced agricultural chemicals
- —減圧停止decompression stop (in diving); decompression pause
- —収穫逓減diminishing returns
- —俯き加減facing slightly downward