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漸

漸 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

steadily, gradually advancing, finally, barely

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ゼンJHS
Kun (native)
  • ようや(く)
  • やや
  • ようよ(う)
  • すす(む)
Other languages
  • 拼音jian4
  • 拼音jian1
  • 한글jeom
  • 한글cham
  • Hán-ViệtTiệm
  • Hán-ViệtTiêm
  • Hán-ViệtTiềm

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
水(みず)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+6F38

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰氵斬

Words using this kanji

  • 漸進ぜんしん少しずつ進むこと。gradual progress, steady advance
  • 漸次ぜんじ次第に。段々。「漸次に」の形でも用いられる。gradually, slowly, little by little, incrementally
  • 漸減ぜんげん徐々に減ること。また、減らすこと。gradual decrease, decline
  • 漸とやっとat last, finally, barely, narrowly
  • 漸くようやくfinally, at last, barely, narrowly
  • 漸ぜんgradual progress
  • 漸近ぜんきん少しずつ近寄ること。また、そのようなさま。asymptote
  • 漸増ぜんぞうだんだん増えること。gradual increase
  • 漸落ぜんらくgradual decline
  • 漸悟ぜんご修行の進展に応じて段階的に悟りが達成されること。gradual enlightenment
  • 漸漸ぜんぜん次第に。gradually, by degrees, the sight of a tall soaring rock, crying
  • 漸うようようfinally, barely, narrowly, hardly
  • 漸近線ぜんきんせんasymptotic line
  • 漸進的ぜんしんてき手順を経て徐々に目的を実現していくさま。gradual
  • 漸次的ぜんじてきgradual, slow
  • 漸新世ぜんしんせい古第三紀の最後の世。3390万年前から2303万年前まで。Oligocene epoch
  • 漸化式ぜんかしき数列のある項の数値を、直前の1つ以上の項を用いて表した式。差分方程式。再帰関係式。recurrence relation, recurrence formula
  • 漸層法ぜんそうほうclimax (rhetoric), gradation
  • 漸進主義ぜんしんしゅぎgradualism, slow-and-steady policy
  • 漸落市況ぜんらくしきょうsagging market

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-11
Four Corner
3212.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3a11.2
Heisig
1217
Nelson
2680