Mnemonic
Your ancestor buried sacred offerings deep in the earth, and overnight every harvest began to increase tenfold. Season after season, the earth swelled with abundance — the ancestor's buried blessing multiplying endlessly.
Additional thoughts
Picture an ancient figure kneeling in soil, pressing glowing relics into the ground. Wherever the relics touch, plants burst upward in explosive growth. Earth + Ancestor = unstoppable growth.Quick recall
Ancestor's blessing buried in the earth makes harvests increase endlessly.Details
The keyword for 増 is increase. This kanji conveys the idea of adding to something, making it greater in number, quantity, or degree. It is used to express growth, expansion, or augmentation in various contexts, such as a population growing, prices rising, or production expanding. The sense is one of something building upon what already exists, becoming more than it was before.
- On'yomi
- ぞう
- Kun'yomi
- ま.す、ま.し、ふ.える、ふ.やす