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縮

See also: 缩
縮 U+7E2E, 縮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E2E
← 縭
[U+7E2D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 縯 →
[U+7E2F]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

縮 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火十人日 (VFJOA), four-corner 23961, composition ⿰糹宿)

Derived characters edit

Related characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 935, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27815
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1374, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3448, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7E2E

Chinese edit

trad. 縮
simp. 缩
alternative forms 𦄲

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (宿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
宿 *suɡs, *suɡ
蓿 *suɡ
縮 *sruɡ
樎 *sruɡ
蹜 *sruɡ
摍 *sruɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sruɡ) : semantic 糸 (“string, thread”) + phonetic 宿 (OC *suɡs, *suɡ).

Pronunciation 1 edit

Note:
  • sok/siok - literary;
  • soh - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 縮
Mandarin Beijing /suo⁵⁵/
Harbin /suo⁵³/ ～小
/suo⁴⁴/ ～回去
Tianjin /suo⁵³/
Jinan /ʂuə⁵⁵/
Qingdao /suə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʂuo²⁴/
Xi'an /suo²¹/
Xining /su⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /suə¹³/
Lanzhou /suə⁵³/
Ürümqi /suɤ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /səu²¹³/
Chengdu /so³¹/
Guiyang /so²¹/
Kunming /so³¹/
Nanjing /soʔ⁵/
Hefei /suəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /suaʔ²/
Pingyao /suʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /suaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /soʔ⁵/
Suzhou /soʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /soʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ɕo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /suʔ²¹/
Tunxi /so⁵/
Xiang Changsha /səu²⁴/
Xiangtan /so²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /sɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /suk̚¹/
Taoyuan /siuk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sok̚⁵/
Nanning /suk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /suk̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sɔk̚³²/
/soʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /sɔuʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /sok̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sok̚⁵/
/tiak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 縮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 東 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 所六切
Baxter srjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʃɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʃiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʃiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʂuwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/ʃiuk̚/
Wang
Li 		/ʃĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʂi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		suk1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 縮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		suō
Middle
Chinese 		‹ srjuwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[s]ruk/
English shrink

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 縮
Reading # 1/1
No. 12107
Phonetic
component 		宿
Rime
group 		覺
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		縮
Old
Chinese 		/*sruɡ/

Definitions edit

縮

  1. to shrink; to shorten; to contract; to draw in; to reduce
  2. to recoil
  3. (literary, or in compounds) to step back; to move back
  4. (literary, or in compounds) to save; to cut down
  5. (dialectal Hakka) timid; cowardly
Synonyms edit
Compounds edit

Pronunciation 2 edit

Definitions edit

縮

  1. Only used in 縮砂密／缩砂密 (sùshāmì).
Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

縮

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to shorten, to shrink, to contract, to shrivel

Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

縮 (eum 축 (chuk))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

縮: Hán Nôm readings: súc

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