狭 — kanji meaning “cramped”
狭
cramped, narrow, contract, tight
- Meanings
- cramped, narrow, contract, tight
- On'yomi
- キョウ (kyou)、コウ (kou)
- Kun'yomi
- せま.い、せば.める、せば.まる、さ
- Name readings
- はざ
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #1346 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 94
- Chinese reading
- xiá — Chinese character page
Words with 狭
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狭い | せまい semai | narrow; confined; small |
| 狭間 | はざま hazama | gap; narrow space between things; interstice |
| 偏狭 | へんきょう henkyou | narrow-mindedness; intolerance; illiberality |
| 狭める | せばめる sebameru | to narrow; to reduce; to contract |
| 狭心症 | きょうしんしょう kyoushinshou | angina pectoris |
| 手狭 | てぜま tezema | narrow; small; cramped |
| 狭まる | せばまる sebamaru | to narrow; to contract |
| 狭義 | きょうぎ kyougi | narrow sense (e.g. of a word) |
| 狭間 | さま sama | loophole (in a castle wall); arrow slit; crenel |
| 若狭 | わかさ wakasa | Wakasa (former province located in the south of present-day Fukui Prefecture) |
| 狭窄 | きょうさく kyousaku | contraction; narrowing |
| 狭小 | きょうしょう kyoushou | narrow; cramped; small-sized |
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