增

Han character edit

增 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土金田日 (GCWA), four-corner 4816₆, composition ⿰土曾)

Related characters edit

• 憎

Descendants edit

• 増

References edit

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 238, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5454
• Dae Jaweon: page 477, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 489, character 6
• Unihan data for U+589E

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 增
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 曾 (OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ) – things grow in the earth, to build from earth.

Etymology edit

The Baxter and Sagart (2014) reconstruction of this word is *s-tˤəŋ, suggesting the word is derived from 登 (OC *tˤəŋ, “to go up”) by *s- prefixing.

Pronunciation edit

Definitions edit

增

1. to increase; to expand; to gain; to add
2. a surname: Zeng
3. 13th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "expansion; growth" (𝌒)

Synonyms edit

• (to increase):

Compounds edit

References edit

• “增”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Kanji edit

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 増)

1. increase
2. add to
3. augment

Readings edit

• On (unclassified): ぞう (zō); そう (sō)
• Kun: ます (masu, 增す); ふえる (fueru, 增える); ふやす (fuyasu, 增やす)

Hanja edit

增 (eumhun 더할 증 (deohal jeung))

1. Hanja form^? of 증 (“increase”).
2. Hanja form^? of 증 (“add to”).
3. Hanja form^? of 증 (“augment”).

Compounds edit

• 증가 (增加, jeungga, “increasing (increased amount)”)
• 증감 (增減, jeunggam, “increasing and decreasing”)
• 증량 (增量, jeungnyang, “increasing in quantity”)
• 증설 (增設, jeungseol, “adding installations”)

Han character edit

增: Hán Nôm readings: tăng, tâng

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