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
- —圧縮力compressive force; compression force
- —縮葉病leaf curl; peach leaf curl
- —熱収縮thermal contraction; heat shrink
- —凝縮熱heat of condensation
- —縮図器pantograph
- —収縮筋constrictor (muscle); retractor
- —無圧縮uncompressed
- —凝縮物condensate
- —圧縮空気compressed air
- —音声圧縮voice compression
- —軍縮協定disarmament agreement
- —軍備縮小reduction of armaments; disarmament
- —伸縮自在elastic; flexible; telescoping; expandable; retractable; extensible
- —伸縮税率flexible tariff
- —人員縮少personnel reduction
- —操業短縮curtailment of operations
- —防縮加工pre-shrunk
- —緊縮財政reduced budget; budgetary austerities
- —筋萎縮症amyotrophy; muscular atrophy
- —生物濃縮biological concentration