狭 — Chinese character
狭
xiá
narrow, limited; narrow-minded
- Pinyin
- xiá
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 犭 夹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — dog; meaning component 犭; sound component 夹
- Traditional
- 狹
- Japanese
- 狭 as a kanji
Common words with 狭
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狭窄 (狹窄) | xiá zhǎi | narrow |
| 狭隘 (狹隘) | xiá ài | (of a path etc) narrow; (of a living space etc) cramped |
| 狭小 (狹小) | xiá xiǎo | narrow |
| 狭义 (狹義) | xiá yì | narrow sense; restricted sense |
| 狭长 (狹長) | xiá cháng | long and narrow |
| 心胸狭隘 (心胸狹隘) | xīn xiōng xiá ài | narrow; petty-minded |
| 偏狭 (偏狹) | piān xiá | prejudiced; narrow-minded |
| 狭路相逢 (狹路相逢) | xiá lù xiāng féng | lit. to meet face to face on a narrow path (idiom); fig. enemies or rivals meet face to face |
| 心胸狭窄 (心胸狹窄) | xīn xiōng xiá zhǎi | (idiom) narrow-minded; petty; ungenerous |
| 褊狭 (褊狹) | biǎn xiá | narrow; small-minded |
| 狭谷 (狹谷) | xiá gǔ | glen |
| 狭路 (狹路) | xiá lù | gorge |
English words written with 狭
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.