窄

Translingual

Han character

窄 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹尸 (JCHS), four-corner 3021₁, composition ⿱穴乍)

Derived characters

• 搾, 榨, 醡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 864, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25455
• Dae Jaweon: page 1292, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2726, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7A84

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Chinese

trad.		窄
simp. #		窄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (乍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
作	*ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡ
鲊	*ʔsraːʔ
痄	*ʔsraːʔ
厏	*ʔsraːʔ, *zraːʔ
詐	*ʔsraːɡs
咋	*ʔsraːɡs, *zraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ
笮	*ʔsraːɡs, *zaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
榨	*ʔsraːɡs
炸	*ʔr'aːɡs, *zreːb
乍	*zraːɡs
拃	*ʔsraːnʔ
酢	*sʰaːɡs, *zaːɡ
祚	*zaːɡs
胙	*zaːɡs
阼	*zaːɡs
飵	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
秨	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
迮	*ʔsaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
柞	*ʔsaːɡ, *zaːɡ
昨	*zaːɡ
怍	*zaːɡ
砟	*zaːɡ
莋	*zaːɡ
岝	*zaːɡ, *zraːɡ
鈼	*zaːɡ
筰	*zaːɡ
葃	*zaːɡ, *zreːɡ, *zaɡ
舴	*ʔr'aːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
窄	*ʔsraːɡ
蚱	*ʔsraːɡ
齚	*zraːɡ
泎	*zraːɡ

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 窄

1. narrow, tight (of rooms, pants, etc.)
2. narrow-minded

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

窄

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)
• Kun: せまい (semai, 窄い); せばめる (sebameru, 窄める); すぼめる (subomeru, 窄める); つぼめる (tsubomeru, 窄める); ほそい (hosoi, 窄い)

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Korean

Hanja

窄 • (chak) (hangeul 착, McCune–Reischauer ch'ak, Yale chak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 窄 (trách)

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