Describes physical spaces that are cramped or restricted. Often used in formal or written contexts.
This room is narrow, making it difficult to place furniture.
After passing through the narrow alley, we came out into a plaza.
Describes a person's mindset or attitude as limited, ungenerous, or lacking in broad perspective. More common in written or critical commentary.
I can no longer tolerate his narrow-minded way of thinking.
Narrow-minded nationalism hinders international cooperation.
Standard kanji spelling.
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Compound of 狭 (kyō, 'narrow') and 隘 (ai, 'narrow pass' or 'confined'). Both kanji contribute a sense of constriction, and the word is used in formal Japanese for both physical and metaphorical narrowness.