Chinese Character Wiki

縮

suō

contract

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

thread

宿 sound component

宿  Sound component

sù, xiǔ, xiù

  

lodge, sleep overnight

Evolution

縮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
縮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缩 (縮) 

suō

contract, draw in, reduce; to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr. [sù]

Most common words with 縮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

缩小

to reduce

缩

to withdraw

收缩

to pull back

缩短

to curtail

退缩

to cower

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ruk

srjuwk

suō

shrink


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.2536% of movies

1596th most common character in movies

1304th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

缩

Unicode

U+7E2E

Shuowen

“縮，亂也。从糸，宿聲。一曰蹴也。”


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