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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

Stroke order of 縮, 17 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

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

ちぢ(む) chijimu · kun reading

ちぢ(まる) chijimaru · kun reading · less common

ちぢ(める) chijimeru · kun reading

ちぢ(れる) chijireru · kun reading · less common

ちぢ(らす) chijirasu · kun reading · less common

Practise writing 縮 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 縮 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 6 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

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.