増

See also 增

Translingual

shinjitai	増
simplified	增
traditional	增

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 增 (曾 → 曽).

Current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 曽.

Han character

増 (radical 32 土+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土金田日 (GCWA), X土金田日 (XGCWA))

1. increase

Related characters

• 僧 憎

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 238, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5448
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 483, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5897

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Japanese

Kanji

増 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぞう (zō), そう (sō)
• Kun: ます (masu), ふえる (fueru), ふやす (fuyasu)

Noun

増 (hiragana ぞう, romaji zō)

1. increase

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Korean

Hanja

増 (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune-Reischauer chŭng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

増 (pinyin zēng (zeng1), Wade-Giles tseng¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

増 (tăng)