縮 — Stroke Order, Readings & Meaning (JLPT N1)

Readings

On readingシュク

Kun readingちぢ.む、ちぢ.まる、ちぢ.める、ちぢ.れる、ちぢ.らす

JLPT level: N1 Jōyō Grade 6

Meanings

shrinkRtK
contract
日曜日は日曜と短縮する。We abbreviate Sunday to Sun.tatoeba
彼はその恐竜の精巧な縮小模型をじっと見つめた。He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.tatoeba
narrow
reduce

to shrink
to contract
to diminish (in size)

Popular Usage

Radicals and components

Radical糸silk 纟variant

Components

How it's built

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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thread (糸) · spiderman · inn · house · person (人) · hundred · one (一) · ceiling (冖) · white (白) · dove

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1434

Compound words

圧縮あっしゅく

compression; condensing; shortening; summarizing; compression (of data)

恐縮きょうしゅく

feeling (much) obliged; being (very) grateful; being thankful; feeling sorry (for troubling someone); feeling ashamed (e.g. of an error)

縮小しゅくしょう

reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down

凝縮ぎょうしゅく

condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration; condensation (of a vapour or gas)

緊縮きんしゅく

tightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction; (economic) curtailment

軍縮ぐんしゅく

reduction of armaments; disarmament

収縮しゅうしゅく

contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation

縮むちぢむ

to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

縮尺しゅくしゃく

reduced scale; scaling down

縮図しゅくず

reduced drawing; miniature copy; microcosm; microcosmos

伸縮しんしゅく

expansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility

短縮たんしゅく

shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation

濃縮のうしゅく

concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation

萎縮いしゅく

withering; shrivelling; shrinking; contraction; atrophy

縮みちぢみ

shrinkage; cotton crepe

縮まるちぢまる

to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink

縮めるちぢめる

to shorten; to reduce; to condense; to shrink; to crumple (fabric)

縮れるちぢれる

to be wavy; to be curled; to be frizzled

Additional Examples

多くの国において軍備縮小は実際には難しい。

Disarmament is in practice difficult in many countries.tatoeba

多くの会社が人員を最低限にまで縮小した。

A lot of companies have pared their staff down to a minimum.tatoeba

Stroke Order

17 strokes

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