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狭

JLPT N1 9 strokes Frequency: #1346

Meanings

Cramped, Narrow, Contract, Tight

Radicals

犭

Decomposition

⿰犭夹

Etymology

Pictophonetic: dog

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left

2 unknown top-to-bottom

3 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

6 diagonal right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

9 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コウ kou

キョウ kyou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

せば seba

せま sema

さ sa

Words Using This Kanji

43 words total

Other (20 words)

狭心症きょうしんしょう

angina pectoris

狭いせまい

narrow

狭義きょうぎ

narrow sense (e.g. of a word)

to narrow

cramped

narrow-gauge railway

narrow gauge

narrow-minded

narrow

narrow-mindedness

narrow

interval

the strait gate (in the Bible)

mist

width

shortsighted

to narrow down the range

心の狭いこころのせまい

narrow-minded

狭鼻猿類きょうびえんるい

catarrhine (primate of infraorder Catarrhini having nostrils that are close together, esp. the Old World monkeys of family Cercopithecidae)

狭めるせばめる

to narrow

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