増

See also: 增

増 U+5897, 増 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5897 ← 墖 [U+5896] CJK Unified Ideographs 墘 → [U+5898]

Translingual

Japanese	増
Simplified	增
Traditional	增

Han character

増 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土金田日 (GCWA) or 難土金田日 (XGCWA), composition ⿰土曽)

1. increase, add to, augment

Related characters

• 僧 憎

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 238, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5448
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 483, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5897

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 増 – see 增 (“to increase; to expand; to gain; to add; : Zeng; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 增).

Japanese

Shinjitai	増
Kyūjitai	增

Glyph origin

Japanese shinjitai simplified from 增 (曾 → 曽).

The current form is a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 曽 ().

Kanji

増

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 增)

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kan’yō-on: ぞう (zō, Jōyō)
• Kun: ます (masu, 増す, Jōyō); ふえる (fueru, 増える, Jōyō); ふやす (fuyasu, 増やす, Jōyō)

Derived terms

• 増(ま)し (mashi)
• 増(ま)す (masu)

Noun

増(ぞう) • (zō) 

1. increase

Korean

Hanja

増 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng)

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