A kanji
増
increase, add, augment, gain, promote
- 14 strokes
- Taught in grade 5 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 231 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
ゾウ
Kun'yomi
ま.す、ま.し、ふ.える、ふ.やす
A dot marks where the okurigana begin.
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 増 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 増 10 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N4 · 1 word
JLPT N3 · 3 words
JLPT N2 · 3 words
JLPT N1 · 3 words
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