EntryJLPT N1
  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Intransitive verb

    to mount up; to pile up; to accumulate; to increase

    Usually written using kana alone

    彼は借財がかさんでいた。
    His debts were piling up.
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Characters in this word

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be aggravated, grow worse, grow bulky, swell

Kun
かさかさ.むたか.い
On
スウシュウ
Strokes
13
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Radical
mountain

Built from

Used in names as

たかしたかたけ

Dictionary and index codes (18)
CodeReference
2-3-10, 2-5-8SKIP code
3o10.4The Kanji Dictionary
2222.7Four corner code
5d69Unicode hex code
1-31-83JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1433Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1502New Nelson (John Haig)
2331New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2927Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1504Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2035Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2224Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2334Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8348Morohashi
2057Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
song1Pinyin reading
sungKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)