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
- —縮写reduced copy; reproduction in miniature
- —縮絨fulling (cloth); milling
- —攣縮spasm
- —退縮regression (of cancer); involution (of an organ); atrophy
- —縮退degeneracy; degeneration; degradation (CPU, memory, etc.)
- —一縮one suit of armour (armor); wearing armour; armoured warrior
- —爆縮implosion
- —縮瞳miosis; myosis
- —縮毛frizzled hair; curly hair
- —縮重degeneracy
- —縮帆reefing a sail; bringing in a sail
- —捲縮crimp; crinkle; waviness
- —痙縮spasticity; contracture; (muscle) stiffness
- —固縮rigidity (e.g. muscular); rigor
- —拘縮contracture (of muscles, joints, etc.)
- —縮地shukuchi (rapid movement techniques); shortening distances
- —縮合condensation
- —圧縮性compressibility
- —圧縮率compressibility; compression ratio
- —高圧縮high compression; high pressure