Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
steadily, gradually advancing, finally, barely
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2115 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 漸 【ゼン】 gradual progress
  • 漸減 【ゼンゲン】 gradual decrease, decline
  • 西漸 【セイゼン】 westward advance
  • 東漸 【トウゼン】 eastward advance

Kun reading compounds

  • 漸く 【ようやく】 finally, at last, barely, narrowly, hardly, only just, gradually, little by little, by degrees
  • 稍 【やや】 a little, partially, somewhat, slightly, semi-, -ish, on the ... side, a short time, a while
  • 漸う 【ようよう】 finally, barely, narrowly, hardly, only just, gradually, little by little, by degrees

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian4, jian1
Korean:
jeom, cham

Spanish

  • gradualmente
  • firmemente

Portuguese

  • firmemente
  • gradualmente avançando
  • finalmente
  • raramente

French

  • progressivement
  • en fin de compte
  • finalement
  • tout juste
1503 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1867 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2680 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1184 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1499 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2081 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1400 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1489 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1503 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1242 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
867 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
500 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
641 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1144 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18179 Morohashi
706 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3305 New Nelson (John Haig)
1135 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1217 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1712 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
354 2001 Kanji
3a11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
3212.1 Four corner code
1-33-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f38 Unicode hex code

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

Speed

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
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