Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
who, someone, somebody
Kun:
だれたれ
On:
スイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1933 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 誰何 【スイカ】 challenging (an unknown person), asking a person's identity

Kun reading compounds

  • 誰 【だれ】 who
  • 誰か 【だれか】 someone, somebody
  • どこの誰 【どこのだれ】 who the heck, just who
  • 誰々 【だれだれ】 so-and-so, who?, which people?
  • 誰 【だれ】 who
  • 誰彼 【だれかれ】 this or that person, anybody, many people
  • 誰 【だれ】 who
  • 誰が為に 【たがために】 for whom

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shui2, shei2
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • quién
  • alguien

Portuguese

French

  • qui
  • quelqu'un
1652 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4384 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1747 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
81 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1986 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1429 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
563 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35586 Morohashi
1578 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5642 New Nelson (John Haig)
2712 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
598 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
484 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
7a8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-8 SKIP code
0061.4 Four corner code
1-35-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ab0 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