狭い

せまい
narrow

Reading

Readingせまい
N5 VocabJLPT N5adj-i
Kanji狭

Meanings

  1. narrow
  1. confinedadj-i
  2. small
  3. cramped
  4. limitedadj-i
  5. narrow-minded
  6. confining

Synonyms

細い

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

広い家だと掃除が大変だから、狭い家でよかった。と言い聞かせている。
ひろいいえだとそうじがたいへんだから、せまいいえでよかった。といいきかせている。A large house is difficult to clean, so I tell myself I'm glad to have a small one.
私にとって日本は狭い。
わたしにとってにっぽんはせまい。For me, Japan is small.
見聞の狭いたとえ。
けんぶんのせまいたとえ。A figure of speech for narrow experience.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

狭
い

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 狭い

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked