縮

Meaning

縮 centers on becoming smaller in size or extent: shrinking, contracting, or reducing. The ideas of shriveling and wrinkling are natural physical results of that same contraction.

• 縮小しゅくしょう
  N2

  reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction; shrinkage

• 短縮たんしゅく
  N1

  shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation

• 圧縮あっしゅく
  N2

  compression

• 恐縮きょうしゅく
  N2

  feeling (much) obliged; being (very) grateful; being thankful

• 濃縮のうしゅく
  N1

  concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation

• 縮めるちぢめる
  N2

  to shorten; to reduce; to condense; to shrink

• 縮むちぢむ
  N3

  to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

• 収縮しゅうしゅく

  contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation

• 凝縮ぎょうしゅく

  condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration

• 萎縮いしゅく

  withering; shrivelling; shrinking

• 縮しゅく

  wearing armour (armor)

• 伸縮しんしゅく

  expansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility

• 縮まるちぢまる
  N2

  to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink

• 緊縮きんしゅく

  tightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction

• 縮みちぢみ
  N1

  shrinkage

• 縮図しゅくず

  reduced drawing; miniature copy

• 軍縮ぐんしゅく
  N1

  reduction of armaments; disarmament

• 縮尺しゅくしゃく

  reduced scale; scaling down

• 縮こまるちぢこまる

  to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled

• 縮れちぢれ

  frizz; kink; crimp; curls (hair, noodles, leaves, etc.)

Explore all words using 縮 →