Illustration: At a busy neighborhood bakery, a baker adds fresh round buns to a shallow display tray while customers remove buns from its opposite end with tongs. One half is becoming crowded as the other develops conspicuous empty patches.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

増ぞう減げん

zougen

increase and decrease, fluctuation

Example sentences

  1. この数年すうねん、体重たいじゅうは増減ぞうげんしていません。

    My weight has not increased or decreased for several years.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 火力かりょくの調整ちょうせいは、炭すみの量りょうの増減ぞうげんや配置はいちを調整ちょうせいすることによって行おこなう。

    The heat can be controlled by adjusting the amount or the positioning of charcoal.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 「みさと笛ふえ」などの改良篠笛かいりょうしのぶえには指孔しこうの数かずを増減ぞうげんしたものもある。

    Some improved shinobue such as the 'misatobue' have more or fewer finger holes.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 増減

  • 増increase; addOnゾウKunます・まし・ふえる
  • 減dwindle; decreaseOnゲンKunへる・へらす

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