Chinese symbol for “austerity”
紧缩
jǐn suō
Traditional: 緊縮
(economics) to reduce; to curtail; to cut back; to tighten
The closest CC-CEDICT match for austerity is 紧缩 (jǐn suō), defined as: (economics) to reduce; to curtail; to cut back; to tighten; austerity; tightening.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 紧缩.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 紧张 (緊張) | jǐn zhāng | nervous; keyed up |
| 紧急 (緊急) | jǐn jí | urgent; emergency |
| 赶紧 (趕緊) | gǎn jǐn | hurriedly; without delay |
| 紧密 (緊密) | jǐn mì | inseparably close |
| 抓紧 (抓緊) | zhuā jǐn | to keep a firm grip on; to pay close attention to |
| 紧紧 (緊緊) | jǐn jǐn | closely; tightly |
| 缩短 (縮短) | suō duǎn | to shorten; to reduce; to curtail |
| 缩小 (縮小) | suō xiǎo | to reduce; to decrease; to shrink |
See also: Japanese symbol for “austerity”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.