Japanese symbol for “regressive”
累減
るいげん
Romaji: ruigen
regressive
In Japanese, regressive is 累減, read るいげん (ruigen).
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Meanings
- adj-no, n, vi regressive
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “regressive”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 退嬰的 | たいえいてき taieiteki | conservative; regressive; backward-looking |
| 退行性 | たいこうせい taikousei | degenerative; regressive; retrogressive |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 累計 | るいけい ruikei | cumulative total; accumulated total; total up to now |
| 累積 | るいせき ruiseki | accumulation |
| 累進 | るいしん ruishin | successive promotion; gradual progression; rising step by step |
| 累々 | るいるい ruirui | in heaps |
| 累代 | るいだい ruidai | successive generations |
| 累犯 | るいはん ruihan | repeated offense; repeated offence; recidivism |
| 減少 | げんしょう genshou | decrease; reduction; decline |
| 削減 | さくげん sakugen | cut; reduction; curtailment |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.