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
- —縮刷版reduced-size edition (esp. of an unabridged compilation of a newspaper); compact edition
- —伸縮性elasticity
- —伸縮法sliding scale
- —短縮形contraction; shortened form; abbreviated form
- —萎縮症atrophy
- —萎縮腎contracted kidney
- —核軍縮nuclear disarmament
- —圧縮機compressor
- —萎縮病dwarf disease (plants); leaf curl
- —縮絨工fuller (of cloth)
- —収縮期systole
- —圧縮袋vacuum bag (used to make clothes, futons, etc. easier to store)
- —縮閉線evolute
- —非圧縮uncompressed; incompressible
- —収縮胞contractile vacuole
- —萎縮性atrophic
- —筋萎縮amyotrophia; muscle atrophy; disuse atrophy
- —筋収縮muscle contraction
- —縮原発reducing dependence on nuclear energy
- —縮約版abridged edition; abridged version; abridgement