更

Meaning

更 centers on the idea of change or progression: renewing, renovating, or moving further. The senses of growing late, night watch, and sitting up late are natural extensions of time advancing, while 'of course' reflects a logical next step.

• 更にさらに
  N3

  furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more

• 変更へんこう
  N3

  change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment

• 更新こうしん
  N2

  renewal; update; replacement; renovation; breaking (a record)

• 今更いまさら
  N2

  now (when it is already much too late); at this stage

• 更こう

  one-fifth of the night (approx. 2 hours)

• 更なるさらなる

  even more; still more; further

• 尚更なおさら
  N2

  still more; even more; all the more

• 更生こうせい

  rehabilitation; remaking one's life; starting life anew

• 更かすふかす

  to sit up late

• 更衣こうい

  changing one's clothes

• 更迭こうてつ

  change (of personnel); reshuffle (e.g. of a cabinet); shake-up; dismissal (e.g. of a minister); replacement

• 更年期こうねんき

  menopause; climacteric

• 更地さらち

  empty lot; vacant plot of land

• 更正こうせい

  correction; revision; rectification

• 満更まんざら
  N1

  (not) altogether; (not) wholly

• 殊更ことさら

  intentionally; deliberately; designedly; on purpose

• 夜更かしよふかし
  N2

  staying up late; sitting up late at night; keeping late hours

• 更けるふける
  N2

  to get late; to advance; to wear on

• 夜更けよふけ
  N1

  late at night; small hours of the morning

• 更紗サラサ

  chintz; calico; printed cotton

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