縮
contract, reduce, shrink, shrivel, wrinkle
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Stroke Order
17 / 17
Information
Grade:6
Strokes:17
JLPT:1
Frequency:909
Vocabulary
シュク
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恐縮 | キョウシュク | feeling (much) obliged; being (very) grateful; being thankful; feeling sorry (for troubling someone); feeling ashamed (e.g. of an error); feeling embarrassed (e.g. by someone's compliments, hospitality, etc.); shrinking back in fear |
| 凝縮 | ギョウシュク | condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration; condensation (of a vapour or gas) |
| 緊縮 | キンシュク | tightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction; (economic) curtailment; retrenchment; austerity; cutting down (on spending) |
| 軍縮 | グンシュク | reduction of armaments; disarmament |
| 収縮 | シュウシュク | contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圧縮 | あっしゅく | compression; condensing; shortening; summarizing; compression (of data) |
| 縮まる | ちぢまる | to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink |
| 縮む | ちぢむ | to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size) |
| 縮む | ちじむ | to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size) |
| 縮める | ちぢめる | to shorten; to reduce; to condense; to shrink; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs); to duck (one's head) |
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