Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
increase, add, augment, gain, promote
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
231 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 増 【ゾウ】 increase
  • 増員 【ゾウイン】 increasing the number of staff, hiring more people
  • 激増 【ゲキゾウ】 sharp increase, sudden rise
  • 累増 【ルイゾウ】 successive or progressive increases, cumulative increase

Kun reading compounds

  • 増す 【ます】 to increase, to grow
  • 益々 【ますます】 increasingly, more and more, decreasingly (when declining), less and less
  • 増し 【まし】 better, preferable, less objectionable, least-worst, more, increase, extra, increase, growth
  • 況して 【まして】 still more, to say nothing of, not to mention, still less
  • 増える 【ふえる】 to increase, to multiply
  • 増やす 【ふやす】 to increase, to add to, to augment

Readings

Japanese names:
まし、 ます
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zeng1
Korean:
jeung

Spanish

  • incremento
  • aumento
  • aumentar
  • incrementar
  • agregar
  • añadir

Portuguese

  • aumentar
  • somar
  • ganhar
  • promover

French

  • augmenter
  • ajouter
  • accroissement
  • gain
  • promouvoir
665 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
763 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
741 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
298 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1137 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
693 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
441 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2077 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
712 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
725 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
429 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
388 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
836 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
483 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
619 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
514 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5448P Morohashi
677 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1088 New Nelson (John Haig)
502 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
541 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
365 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
797 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1478 2001 Kanji
3b11.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
4816.6 Four corner code
1-33-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5897 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
frame, framework, spindle, spool, bounding-box, (kokuji)
Kun:
わく
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
922 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 枠 【わく】 frame, framework, border, box, limit, restriction, quota, category, bracket, class, time slot (in a broadcasting schedule), stream, livestream, live stream, live (online) broadcast, spool (of thread), reel
  • 枠外 【わくがい】 (beyond the) limits, scope, boundary
  • 型枠 【かたわく】 formwork, shuttering, mold, mould, form
  • 鋼枠 【こうわく】 steel formwork, steel sets

Readings

Spanish

  • marco
  • armazón
  • rango
  • alcance

Portuguese

  • moldura
  • estrutura
  • carretel
  • cilindro

French

  • cadre
  • structure
  • bobine
  • bounding box (graph.)
  • (kokuji)
1943 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2047 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2205 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1421 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1907 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2079 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
510 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1082 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1077 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
582 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
771 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
204 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14576 Morohashi
866 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2585 New Nelson (John Haig)
200 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
212 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1197 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1855 2001 Kanji
4a4.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4494.1 Four corner code
1-47-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67a0 Unicode hex code