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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

231 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: increase, add, augment, gain, promote

Kunyomi: ま.す, ま.し, ふ.える, ふ.やす

Onyomi: ゾウ

Composition: 土 曽

増

Radical

Radical: 土

Reading: つちへん

Meaning: earth

Strokes: 3

Reading: つちへん

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Examples

Examples with audio

増加する(ぞうかする)   increase in number [v.i.]

増大する(ぞうだいする)   increase in size [v.i.]

増減する(ぞうげんする)   increase and decrease [v.i.]

増税する(ぞうぜいする)   raise taxes

急増する(きゅうぞうする)   increase rapidly

倍増する(ばいぞうする)   double [v.i., v.t.]

増す(ます)   increase [v.i., v.t.]

増える(ふえる)   increase [v.i.]

増やす(ふやす)   increase [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

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

Kunyomi Examples

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

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