Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
dwindle, decrease, reduce, decline, curtail, get hungry
Kun:
へ.るへ.らす
On:
ゲン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
261 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 減 【ゲン】 reduction, decrease, subtraction, reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryō codes)
  • 減員 【ゲンイン】 reduction of staff
  • 増減 【ゾウゲン】 increase and decrease, fluctuation
  • 軽減 【ケイゲン】 abatement, reduction

Kun reading compounds

  • 減る 【へる】 to decrease (in size or number), to diminish, to abate
  • 減るもんじゃない 【へるもんじゃない】 it's no big deal, it's nothing to fret about, it's not like it's the end of the world
  • 減らす 【へらす】 to abate, to decrease, to diminish, to shorten

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian3
Korean:
gam

Spanish

  • menguar
  • decrecer
  • disminuir
  • resta
  • acortar

Portuguese

  • definhar
  • decréscimo
  • reduzir
  • decadência
  • encurtar
  • obter
  • com fome

French

  • diminuer
  • réduire
  • décliner
  • décroître
  • avoir faim
775 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
693 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
667 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
533 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2637 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
610 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
694 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
715 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
728 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
430 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1219 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
733 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
436 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
548 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
372 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17759 Morohashi
601 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3249 New Nelson (John Haig)
366 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
391 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
753 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
359 2001 Kanji
3a9.37 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
3315.0 Four corner code
1-24-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e1b Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
plow
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 摩耗 【マモウ】 wear, abrasion
  • 衰耗 【スイモウ】 weaken and decline
  • 減耗 【ゲンモウ】 natural decrease
  • 損耗 【ソンモウ】 wear, loss

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hao4
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • disminuir
  • decrecer
  • gastarse

Portuguese

  • decréscimo

French

  • décroître
1853 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1880 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3694 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1720 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1662 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1197 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1260 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1783 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1581 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1660 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
881 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1199 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1933 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28909P Morohashi
1309 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4709 New Nelson (John Haig)
1914 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2063 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1383 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1456 2001 Kanji
0a10.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
5291.4 Four corner code
1-44-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8017 Unicode hex code