增

See also 増

Translingual

shinjitai	増
simplified	增
traditional	增

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 曾 – things grow in the earth, to build from earth.

Han character

增 (radical 32 土+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土金田日 (GCWA), four-corner 4816₆)

1. increase, add to, augment

Related characters

• 憎

Descendants

• 増

References

• KangXi: page 238, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5454
• Dae Jaweon: page 477, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 489, character 6
• Unihan data for U+589E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

增 (Yale jang1)

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Japanese

Kanji

增

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 增补
• 增产
• 增大
• 增订
• 增多
• 增防
• 增幅
• 增高
• 增光
• 增广
• 增辉
• 增加
• 增减
• 增进
• 增剧
• 增刊
• 增量
• 增辟
• 增强
• 增色
• 增删
• 增设
• 增生
• 增收
• 增添
• 增修
• 增益
• 增印
• 增援
• 增长
• 增值
• 增殖

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Vietnamese

Han character

增 (tăng, tâng)