# 加 — Add

Frequency rank 220 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 元 (Origin), less common than 読 (Read).

- On’yomi: か
- Kun’yomi: くわ
- Radical: 力 Power (Kangxi 19)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 5

The bent arm holds the truck off the pinned child while the mouth in the plaster spits chewed mail, a hand and half a bumper into the truck bed, and every wet lump it Adds comes straight down onto that one arm.

In words:

- 加わる くわわる — to join in,to accede to,to increase,to gain in (influence)
- 加える くわえる — to append,to sum up,to add (up)
- 加減 かげん — addition and subtraction,allowance for

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