缩
suō HSK4

contract

缩 縮 suō
to shrink verb
to shrink; to contract; to reduce in size or length

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to recoil verb
to shrink back; to withdraw in fear
abbreviation nounverb
(bound form) abbreviation; to abbreviate
to pull back verb
to pull back (one's limbs, head, etc.); to not stretch out
to economize verb
to economize; to reduce expenses or save; to cut back
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,304th most common 95.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,596th most common 37.1 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.89 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
21.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
縮
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+7F29

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)