縮
縮 — chuk
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 줄일 축
- Romanization
- chuk
- English
- contract, draw in, reduce
- Mandarin
- suō
- Japanese on'yomi
- シュク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ちぢ.む ちぢ.まる ちぢ.める ちぢ.れる ちぢ.らす
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #909 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 糸 (120, 11 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 宿
- Unicode
- U+7E2E
Parts that make up 縮
How 縮 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 縮 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 糸, 宿.
Korean example words with 縮
- 축비縮比 Korean gloss: 축소하거나 축소된 비율
- 군축軍縮 Korean gloss: ‘군비 축소’를 줄여 이르는 말
- 위축萎縮 Korean gloss: 어떤 힘에 눌려 졸아들고 기를 펴지 못함
- 흠축欠縮 Korean gloss: 일정한 수효에서 부족함이 생김. 또는 그런 부족
- 축경縮景 Korean gloss: 수석이나 석가산 또는 분재 따위의 형식으로 자연 경치를 축소하여 꾸민 것
- 축도縮圖 Korean gloss: 어떤 것의 내용이나 속성을 작은 규모로 유사하게 지니고 있는 것을 비유적으로 이르는 말
- 감축하다減縮 Korean gloss: 덜어서 줄이다
- 퇴축하다退縮 Korean gloss: 움츠리고 물러나다
- 수축되다收縮 Korean gloss: 부피나 규모가 줄어들다
- 외축하다畏縮 Korean gloss: 두려워서 몸을 움츠리다
- 단축하다短縮 Korean gloss: 시간이나 거리 따위를 짧게 줄이다
- 축소하다縮小 Korean gloss: 모양이나 규모 따위를 줄여서 작게 하다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 縮
- 軍縮ぐんしゅく reduction of armaments; disarmament
- 縮小しゅくしょう reduction; curtailment; cut
- 短縮たんしゅく shortening; contraction; reduction
- 圧縮あっしゅく compression; condensing; shortening
- 濃縮のうしゅく concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation
- 緊縮きんしゅく tightening; shrinkage; contraction
- 凝縮ぎょうしゅく condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration; condensation (of a vapour or gas)
- 収縮しゅうしゅく contraction; shrinking; shrinkage
- 恐縮きょうしゅく feeling (much) obliged; being (very) grateful; being thankful
- 縮図しゅくず reduced drawing; miniature copy; microcosm
- 縮むちぢむ to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)
- 縮みちぢみ shrinkage; cotton crepe
Characters sharing the phonetic 宿
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “축”
Other hanja with radical 糸
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences