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Kanji Detail for 益 - "benefit, increase, useful"

  • Meaning

    益 means "benefit, increase, useful."

    1. Benefit - Advantage or profit; something helpful.

    2. Increase - To become greater; to grow more.

    3. Useful - Serving a helpful purpose; beneficial.

    4. More and more - Increasingly; to a greater extent.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    benefit; gain; profit; advantage

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    profit, benefit; advantage; hexagram ䷩

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Yi

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to profit, to benefit; advantage

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To increase. All that has progress is called 益. Such as in learning one speaks of 得益 (gaining benefit). | A province name. Established in Han. Today's Sichuan and the northern parts of Yunnan and Guizhou. All are this. | A small bowl.
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Sentences including

  • Read such books as can benefit you.

  • It is to his advantage.

  • This book is of great use.

  • He would do anything for gain.

  • This book is at once interesting and instructive.

  • It was of great benefit to me.

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