Japanese Kanji
漸zen
steadily · gradually advancing · finally
Secondary school · JLPT N1 · 14 strokes
Steadily, gradually advancing, finally, barely.
漸 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N1 (advanced) level. With 14 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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