IDENTITY
减jiǎnto reduce; to subtract
HSK 4Top 600
CORE MEANING
to reduce; to subtract
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to reduceHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 冫ice radical (bīng)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰冫咸
- ice; cooling down
- gives the sound jiǎn (historical)
USAGE
Common words
减少jiǎnshǎoto reduce
减肥jiǎnféito lose weight
加减jiājiǎnplus and minus
Graded examples
他想减肥，每天跑步。Tā xiǎng jiǎnféi, měitiān pǎobù.HSK4
He wants to lose weight and runs every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 咸
LEARNING
Memory aid
Cooling (冫) the salt (咸) — reducing. (From 減.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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