縮

See also 缩

Translingual

simpl.		缩
trad.		縮

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糸 (“string, thread”) + phonetic 宿 – to pull in, roll up a string, to shorten.

Han character

縮 (radical 120 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火十人日 (VFJOA), four-corner 2396₁)

1. contract, draw in, reduce

Descendants

• 缩

References

• KangXi: page 935, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27815
• Dae Jaweon: page 1374, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3448, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7E2E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

縮 (simplified 缩, Yale suk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

縮 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅく (shuku)
• Kun: ちぢむ (chijimu), ちぢまる (chijimaru), なおい (naoi)

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Korean

Hanja

縮 (hangeul 축, revised chuk, McCune-Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

縮 (simplified 缩, pinyin suō (suo1), Wade-Giles so¹)

Compounds

• 縮寫

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Middle Chinese

Han character

縮 (shriuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縮 (súc)