Kanji1 / 17
縮 kanji
shrink, contract, shrivel, wrinkle, reduce
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 17
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
シュク
Kun readings
ちぢむちぢまるちぢめるちぢれるちぢらす
Words with 縮
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2圧縮Popularcompression; condensing; shortening; summarizing; compression (of data)
- N2恐縮Popularfeeling (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
- N2縮小Popularreduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction; shrinkage
- N1短縮Popularshortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
- —凝縮Popularcondensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration; condensation (of a vapour or gas)
- —緊縮Populartightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction; (economic) curtailment; retrenchment; austerity; cutting down (on spending)
- —軍縮Popularreduction of armaments; disarmament
- —収縮Popularcontraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation
- —縮尺Popularreduced scale; scaling down
- —縮図Popularreduced drawing; miniature copy; microcosm; microcosmos
- —伸縮Popularexpansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility
- —濃縮Popularconcentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation
- —萎縮Popularwithering; shrivelling; shrinking; contraction; atrophy
- —縮wearing armour (armor); counter for suits of armour
- —畏縮wincing; cowering; shrinking; flinching; recoiling
- —強縮tetanus
- —縮刷reduced-size printing; printing in a compact format
- —縮約abridgment; abridgement; condensation; contraction
- —縮減reduction; diminishment; contraction
- —防縮shrinkproof