# 縮 contract / shrink

糸 (string) + 宿 (lodge at) Same-ON
★☆☆☆☆
17 strokes

## Onyomi

SHUKU | SHOES COULD shrink if you wash 'em in hot water.

## Mnemonic

| I'll tie a string around the hotel you're lodging at, and pull the string until the hotel shrinks to a meter wide!!! (FYI - I am a somewhat deluded super-villain)

## Kunyomi

( が ) ちぢ＊まる | contract (lips pucker, the sphincter contracts, the circle closes in around the hunted man) ★☆☆☆☆
( が ) ちぢ＊む | to shrink , shrivel (shirts shrink in the laundry, dicks shrivel in cold water) ☆☆☆☆☆

## Jukugo

縮小(しゅくしょう) する | cut back ☆☆☆☆☆ NP 縮 (contract / shrink) + 小 (small size) = 縮小 (cut back) to reduce, cut back on something. (business word)

## Synonyms

cut down on, reduce 減る 控える 縮小