减 (減) jiǎn

1. jiǎn verb to deduct / to subtract
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity 数量
   Notes: As in 减少 (Guoyu '減' v 1; Kroll 2015 '減' 1; NCCED '減' 1; Unihan '減')
2. jiǎn verb to reduce
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity 数量
   Notes: As in 降低 (Guoyu '減' v 2; Kroll 2015 '減' 1; NCCED '減' 2)
3. jiǎn verb to be less than / to be not as good as
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 不及 or 不如 (Guoyu '減' v 3; Kroll 2015 '減' 1a)
4. jiǎn verb to mitigate / to relieve
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '減' 2)
5. jiǎn verb to contribute / to donate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '減' 2a)
6. jiǎn adverb approximately / nearly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '減' 3)
7. jiǎn noun subtraction
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Mathematics 数学
   Notes: In the sense of 减法 (Guoyu '減' n 1)
8. jiǎn proper noun Jian
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names 名字 , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '減' n 1)

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• 折减(折減) to reduce the price
• 减少(減少) to lessen / to decrease / to reduce / to lower
• 缩减(縮減) to cut / to reduce
• 减排(減排) to reduce emissions
• 减轻(減輕) to lighten / to ease / to alleviate
• 减产(減產) to cut production
• 减低(減低) to lower / to reduce
• 减弱(減弱) to weaken
• 削减(削減) to cut down
• 衰减(衰減) to weaken / to decline
• 递减(遞減) to progressively decrease / to gradually fall
• 偷工减料(偷工減料) to skimp on the job and stint on materials
• 减号(減號) a minus sign
• 减值(減值) to decrement / to decrease in value
• 减损(減損) to impair / to degrade / to decrease / to reduce / to weaken / to detract from
• 减压(減壓) to reduce pressure / to relax
• 减省(減省) to reduce
• 减肥 to lose weight ; to lose weight
• 减肥 to lose weight ; to lose weight
• 减退(減退) to ebb / to go down / to decline
• 减速(減速) to reduce speed / to slow down / to take it easy
• 减慢(減慢) to slow down
• 减价(減價) to cut prices / to discount / to mark down / price cutting
• 锐减(銳減) steep decline
• 减碳(減碳) to reduce carbon emissions
• 减缓(減緩) to slow down / to retard
• 裁减(裁減) to reduce / to lessen / to cut down
• 减税(減稅) tax cut
• 减刑(減刑) to reduce penalty / shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence
• 减免(減免) to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc)
• 减掉(減掉) to subtract / to lose (weight)
• 减薪(減薪) to cut wages
• 减半(減半) to reduce by half
• 减法(減法) subtraction
• 减小(減小) to reduce / to decrease / to diminish
• 减去(減去) minus / to subtract
• 减色(減色) to fade / to lose luster / (of an event etc) to be spoiled / (coinage) to become debased
• 删减(刪減) to delete / to censor out
• 减息(減息) to lower the interest rate
• 减削(減削) to reduce / to cut down
• 减负(減負) to alleviate a burden on
• 增减(增減) to increase or decrease
• 有增无减(有增無減) to increase without pause / to get worse and worse
• 光纤衰减(光纖衰減) optical attenuation
• 宽减(寬減) tax relief
• 减低速度(減低速度) to retard / to decelerate
• 减俸(減俸) to lower salary / to reduce pay
• 减噪(減噪) noise reduction
• 减压程序(減壓程序) decompression schedule

Also contained in

佛说不增不减经 、 不增不减经

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• 卷三十七 志第十三 曆七 Volume 37 Treatises 13: Calendar 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 214
• 卷三十四 志第十四: 曆三 Volume 34 Treatises 14: Calendar 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 202
• 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 170
• 卷六十九 志第二十二 律曆二 Volume 69 Treatises 22: Measures and Calendar 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 166
• 卷七十五 志第二十八 律曆八 Volume 75 Treatises 28: Measures and Calendar 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 163
• 卷二十二　志第三:　曆下 步月離第五 步交會第六 步五星第七 Volume 22 Treatises 3: Calendar 2 - Phases of the Month 5, Phases of Convergence 6, Phases of the Five Planets 7 History of Jin 金史 — count: 154
• 卷三十五 志第十一 曆五 Volume 35 Treatises 11: Calendar 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 127
• 卷五十六　志第八:　　曆五 Volume 56 Treatises 9: Calendar 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 124
• 卷二十六　　　　志第十六　　　曆二 Volume 26 Treatises 17: Calendar 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 123

Collocations

• 减死 (減死) 令死罪人贖錢五十萬減死一等 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六 武帝紀 Volume 6: Annals of Emperor Wu — count: 11
• 减宣 (減宣) 減宣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 8
• 率减 (率減) 師大率減什三 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《衛將軍驃騎列傳》 Biography of Cavalry General Wei — count: 6
• 礼减 (禮減) 禮減而進 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — count: 4
• 减天下 (減天下) 其減天下鹽賈 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八 宣帝紀 Volume 8: Annals of Emperor Xuan — count: 3
• 减一 (減一) 減一穀 — Guanzi 管子, 揆度第七十八 Chapter 78: Examining Standards — count: 3
• 减溜 (減溜) 減溜大成 — Guanzi 管子, 宙合第十一 Chapter 11: Zhou He — count: 3
• 减食 (減食) 減食而死 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 難一第三十六 Chapter 36: Difficulties I — count: 3
• 减陇西 (減隴西) 減隴西 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《衛將軍驃騎列傳》 Biography of Cavalry General Wei — count: 3
• 减合 (減合) 以減合晨度 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十一 律曆志 Volume 21: Treatise on Rhythm and the Calendar — count: 2