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The kanji 減: meaning, readings and stroke order
減
- Meaning
- decrease
- On reading
- ゲン gen
- Kun reading
- へ（る） heru、へ（らす） herasu
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 水 water
- Level
- Level 5 · grade 5
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- giảm
- Japanese
- へる。へらす。
- Korean
- 줄다, 줄이다 (감)
- Chinese
- 减少 (减)
Readings, words and example sentences
ゲン gen · on reading · less common
増減
going up and down, increase and decrease
人数の 増減を グラフに します。
I make a graph of how the number of people goes up and down.
へ（る） heru · kun reading
減る
to go down, to decrease
池の 水が だんだん 減ります。
The water in the pond slowly goes down.
へ（らす） herasu · kun reading
減らす
to reduce, to cut down on
使う 紙を 減らします。
We use less paper.
Practise writing 減 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 減 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 5 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.