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

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

Derived terms

Noun

増(ぞう) • (zō) 

  1. increase

Korean

Hanja

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

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