Memory phrase for the Kanji: 縮
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縮 |
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Meaning
| shrink, reduce, shorten
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Pronunciation |
SHUKU
chijimu/meru |
Explanation |
Left: thread 糸, right: accommodation/lodge 宿 (Below a roof 宀 with persons 人 in hundreds 百) |
Mnemonic
| (The laundry was washed too hot:) The threads in the lodge have been shrunk.
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Radicals
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Vocabulary
| 萎縮 |
いしゅく |
shrinking, withering |
| 縮小 |
しゅくしょう |
reduction, curtailment |
| 圧縮 |
あっしゅく |
compression, condensation, pressure |
| 恐縮 |
きょうしゅく |
shame, very kind of you, sorry to trouble |
| 短縮 |
たんしゅく |
shortening, abbreviation, reduction |
| 縮まる |
ちぢまる |
to be shortened, to be contracted, to shrink |
| 縮む |
ちぢむ |
to shrink, to be contracted |
| 縮める |
ちぢめる |
to shorten, to reduce, to boil down, to shrink |
| 縮れる |
ちぢれる |
to be wavy, to be curled |
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