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Kanji Detail for 益 - "benefit, increase"

益

  • Meaning

    益 means "benefit, increase." Also associated with 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.

  • Words using 益

    • 利益 りえき Listen profit; gains; benefit
    • 収益 しゅうえき Listen earnings; proceeds; returns
    • 減益 げんえき Listen decrease in profits
    • 経常利益 けいじょうりえき Listen current profits; ordinary profit; income before income taxes
    • 差益 さえき Listen marginal profits
    • 増益 ぞうえき Listen increased (profit)
    • 国益 こくえき Listen national interest
    • 公益 こうえき Listen public interest; public benefit; public good

  • Four-character idioms with 益

    • 問答無益 もんどうむえき Listen there being no use in arguing (about it); not up for discussion
    • 有害無益 ゆうがいむえき Listen more harm than good; harmful and of no use
    • 無益有害 むえきゆうがい Listen useless and harmful
    • 現世利益 げんせりやく Listen benefits gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings; happiness gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings
    • 益者三友 えきしゃさんゆう Listen three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones

  • Tattoo check: 益

    • Verified meaning: benefit, increase
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read えき, すすむ, ます, やく)
    • Also carries these associations: useful

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 益

    Given names 益(えき)Listen 益(すすむ)Listen 益(ます)Listen 益(ゆたか)Listen

    Surnames 益(やく)Listen

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    eki(エキ) エキ

    yaku(ヤク) ヤク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    masu(ます) ます

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    皿 (sara)

  • Related Keywords

    benefit increase useful more and more provision profit gain advantage asset beneficial betterment boon enhancement enrichment grow helpful improvement increasingly merit positive productive

Sentences including 益

  • 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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