Hanja Analyzer
増

増 — jeung

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 增.

Korean reading
더할 증
Romanization
jeung
English
increase
Mandarin
zēng
Japanese on'yomi
ゾウ, ソウ
Japanese kun'yomi
ま.す ま.し ふ.える ふ.やす
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 5
Newspaper frequency
#231 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Variant forms
增
Radical
土 (32, 11 residual)
Unicode
U+5897

Parts that make up 増

  • 土 흙 토, 뿌리 두 땅 위에 쌓인 흙더미흙·땅과 그 위에 세운 것
  • 曽 일찍 증 김이 오르는 시루曾 과 같은 글자. ‘증·층’ 계열의 소리

How 増 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 増 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 土, 曽.

Japanese words with 増

  • 増加ぞうか increase; rise; growth
  • 増税ぞうぜい tax increase
  • 増殖ぞうしょく increase; multiplication; propagation
  • 急増きゅうぞう rapid increase; sharp rise; proliferation
  • 増大ぞうだい enlargement; increase
  • 増強ぞうきょう reinforcement; augmentation; strengthening
  • 増収ぞうしゅう increase in yield
  • 増益ぞうえき increased (profit)
  • 増額ぞうがく increase (in an amount of money)
  • 増資ぞうし increase of capital; issue of new shares
  • 増産ぞうさん increase in production; production increase
  • 増設ぞうせつ adding (equipment, facilities, etc.); establishing more; installing more

Other hanja read “증”

增 嶒 憎 拯 曽 曾 烝 璔 甑 症 矰 繒 罾 蒸 證 贈

Other hanja with radical 土

土 圥 圧 在 圬 圭 圮 地 圻 圾 址 坂 均 坊 坌 坍 坎 坏 坐 坑 坡 坤 坦 坧 坨 坩 坪 坫 坮 坯 坰 坱 坳 坵 坷 坸 坻 坼 垂 垈 型 垌 垓 垕 垝 垞 垠 垢 垣 垤 垩 垸 垽 埃 埆 埇 埈 埉 埋 城

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