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

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