缩 — Chinese character
缩
suō
to withdraw, to shrink, to pull back; abbreviation
- Pinyin
- suō
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 纟 宿
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 纟; sound component 宿
- Traditional
- 縮
Common words with 缩
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缩短 (縮短) | suō duǎn | to shorten; to reduce; to curtail |
| 缩小 (縮小) | suō xiǎo | to reduce; to decrease; to shrink |
| 压缩 (壓縮) | yā suō | to compress; compression |
| 收缩 (收縮) | shōu suō | to pull back; to shrink |
| 缩写 (縮寫) | suō xiě | abbreviation; to abridge |
| 紧缩 (緊縮) | jǐn suō | (economics) to reduce; to curtail |
| 萎缩 (萎縮) | wěi suō | to wither; to dry up (of a plant) |
| 缩减 (縮減) | suō jiǎn | to cut; to reduce |
| 缩水 (縮水) | suō shuǐ | to shrink (in the wash); fig. to shrink (of profits etc) |
| 浓缩 (濃縮) | nóng suō | to concentrate; to condense; (nuclear energy) to enrich |
| 退缩 (退縮) | tuì suō | to shrink back; to cower |
| 缩影 (縮影) | suō yǐng | miniature version of sth; microcosm |
English words written with 缩
- compression
- shrink
- scaling
- contraction
- austerity
- espresso
- acronym
- compressor
- shorten
- tightening
- epitome
- thumbnail
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.