The kanji 縮: meaning, readings and stroke order
縮
- Meaning
- shrink
- On reading
- シュク shuku
- Kun reading
- ちぢ(む) chijimu、ちぢ(まる) chijimaru、ちぢ(める) chijimeru、ちぢ(れる) chijireru、ちぢ(らす) chijirasu
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 糸 silk
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- co lại, rút ngắn (súc)
- Japanese
- ちぢむ。ちぢめる。
- Korean
- 줄어들다, 줄이다 (축)
- Chinese
- 缩小、缩短 (缩)
Readings, words and example sentences
シュク shuku · on reading
短縮
making shorter, cutting down
時間を 短縮します。
We cut down the time.
ちぢ(む) chijimu · kun reading
縮む
to shrink
あらったら セーターが 縮みました。
My sweater shrank when I washed it.
ちぢ(まる) chijimaru · kun reading · less common
縮まる
to get smaller, to close (a gap)
二人の 差が 縮まりました。
The gap between the two got smaller.
ちぢ(める) chijimeru · kun reading
縮める
to make shorter, to make smaller
ひもを 少し 縮めます。
I make the string a little shorter.
ちぢ(れる) chijireru · kun reading · less common
縮れる
to become curly, to be frizzy
かみが 縮れて います。
Her hair is curly.
ちぢ(らす) chijirasu · kun reading · less common
縮らす
to make curly
かみを 縮らします。
She makes her hair curly.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.