| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
231 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
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
- Korean:
- jeung
Spanish
- incremento
- aumento
- aumentar
- incrementar
- agregar
- añadir
Portuguese
- aumentar
- somar
- ganhar
- promover
French
- augmenter
- ajouter
- accroissement
- gain
- promouvoir
| 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 |
faction, group, party, clique, sect, school
- On:
- ハ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
164 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 派 【ハ】 clique, group, coterie, (political) faction, wing, party, camp, school, sect, denomination
- 派遣 【ハケン】 dispatch, despatch, deployment, temporary employee (esp. from an agency), temporary worker, agency temp
- 硬派 【コウハ】 hard-liners, diehards, hawks, (young) man with traditionally masculine interests, tough boy, man's man, hard news, reporter who covers political and economic affairs, strait-laced type (with respect to relationships), bullish traders
- 右派 【ウハ】 right wing
Readings
- Korean:
- pa
Spanish
- grupo
- división
- rama
- enviar
- mandar
Portuguese
- facção
- grupo
- partido
- claque
- seita
- escola
French
- faction
- groupe
- parti
- clan
- secte
- école
| 857 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 965 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 955 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 293 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2547 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 516 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1471 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 812 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 912 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 934 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1191 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1192 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 456 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 281 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 341 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1872 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 17428 | Morohashi |
| 381 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3126 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1855 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1999 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 286 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 892 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 365 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3a6.21 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-6 | SKIP code |
| 3213.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-39-41 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6d3e | Unicode hex code |