添

Meaning

添 centers on adding something extra to complete or enhance: attaching, appending, or accompanying. The ideas of marrying, suiting, and satisfying extend from adding what is needed to make a whole.

• 添えるそえる
  N2

  to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift)

• 添付てんぷ
  N3

  attaching (documents, etc.); appending; affixing

• 添加てんか
  N1

  addition; annexing

• 巻き添えまきぞえ
  N1

  getting mixed up in; getting embroiled in; involvement; entanglement; by-blow

• 添削てんさく
  N1

  correction; looking over; touching up

• 付き添いつきそい

  attendance (on); chaperonage

• 添い寝そいね

  sleeping together

• 寄り添うよりそう
  N1

  to get close; to cuddle close together; to nestle close to; to snuggle up to

• 添うそう
  N1

  to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy; to comply with; to live up to

• 力添えちからぞえ

  help; assistance; service

• 添乗てんじょう

  accompanying (on a trip); escorting (a tour group)

• 付き添うつきそう
  N1

  to attend on; to wait on; to accompany; to escort; to chaperone

• 介添えかいぞえ

  helper (e.g. for a sick person); assistant

• 添え物そえもの

  addition; supplement

• 口添えくちぞえ

  recommendation; putting in a good word for someone

• 添い遂げるそいとげる

  to remain married for life; to live as a married couple until death

• 食品添加物しょくひんてんかぶつ

  food additive

• 添加物てんかぶつ

  additive

• 連れ添うつれそう

  to become a couple; to be man and wife; to be married to

• 付き添い看護婦つきそいかんごふ

  (female) private nurse; patient attendant

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