in English

jiǎn verb HSK4
to lower / to decrease / to reduce / to subtract / to diminish

Stroke order

Le caractère 减 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 减 Show the animation
Le caractère 減 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 減, the traditional character: 减 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 七减二是五。

    Seven minus two is five.

  • 八减四得四。

    Eight minus four is four.

  • 减税常被用作刺激经济的主要财政手段。

    Tax cuts are often used as a major fiscal tool to stimulate the economy.

  • 卡拉OK对减轻压力有益。

    Karaoke is good for reducing stress.

  • 她的体重减轻了。

    She has lost weight.

  • 当您开车的时候,应该在转弯处减速。

    When you are driving, you should slow down on corners.

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