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Keyword
shrink
  • contract
  • shrivel
  • wrinkle
  • reduce
Frequency
#909
Strokes
17
Grade
6
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
1434
Readings
シュク72%
ちぢ28%
Mnemonic
You toss thread into the place to sleep, the washing machine by the bed, and when it comes out it starts to shrink until it fits a doll.
Stroke order
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Used in vocabulary
軍ぐん縮しゅく
reduction of armaments; disarmament
Noun
縮しゅく小しょう
reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction; shrinkage
Noun
短たん縮しゅく
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
Noun
圧あっ縮しゅく
compression; condensing; shortening; summarizing; compression (of data)
Noun
濃のう縮しゅく
concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation
Noun
縮ちぢれる
to be wavy; to be curled; to be frizzled
Ichidan verb
恐きょう縮しゅく
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.)
Noun
緊きん縮しゅく
tightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction; (economic) curtailment; retrenchment; austerity; cutting down (on spending)
Noun
萎い縮しゅく
withering; shrivelling; shrinking; contraction; atrophy
Noun
収しゅう縮しゅく
contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation
Noun
凝ぎょう縮しゅく
condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration; condensation (of a vapour or gas)
Noun
縮しゅく
wearing armour (armor); counter for suits of armour
Noun
伸しん縮しゅく
expansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility
Noun
縮しゅく刷さつ版ばん
reduced-size edition (esp. of an unabridged compilation of a newspaper); compact edition
Noun
縮ちぢまる
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
Godan verb
縮ちぢむ
to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)
Godan verb
縮ちぢめる
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)
Ichidan verb
縮ちぢみ
shrinkage; cotton crepe
Noun
縮しゅく図ず
reduced drawing; miniature copy; microcosm; microcosmos
Noun
縮しゅく減げん
reduction; diminishment; contraction
Noun
縮しゅく尺しゃく
reduced scale; scaling down
Noun
縮ちぢれ
frizz; kink; crimp; curls (hair, noodles, leaves, etc.)
Noun
核かく軍ぐん縮しゅく
nuclear disarmament
Noun