增

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

• 憎

• 増

• 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

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.

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.

增

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

• (to increase):

• “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–

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 増)

1. increase
2. add to
3. augment

• 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)

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”)

• 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”)

增: Hán Nôm readings: tăng, tâng

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