The kanji 増 primarily means "to increase," "to add," or "to grow." It conveys the idea of something becoming larger in quantity, size, or number. It implies a process of augmentation or expansion.

・On-yomi (音読み): ゾウ (zō) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): ま（す） (ma(su)), ふ（える） (fu(eru)), ふ（やす） (fu(yasu))

⚫︎人口増加 Translation: Population increase ⚫︎収入を増やす Translation: To increase income ⚫︎増築 Translation: Extension (of a building)

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The kanji 増 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字). ⚫︎The left side is the radical 土 (tsuchi), meaning "earth" or "ground", but in this context it is somewhat simplified and acts as a semantic component. ⚫︎The right side is 曾 (sō), which functions phonetically, indicating the sound and contributing the sense of "to pile up" or "to layer". ⚫︎The character therefore combines a semantic element related to building or accumulating (earth) with a phonetic element indicating the sound, and the overall meaning of augmentation.