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Translingual
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)
- 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
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
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 增)
Readings
Derived terms
Noun
増 • (zō)
- increase
Korean
Hanja
増 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng)
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