缩

Stroke order

Example sentences

• 请记住这些缩写。

  Qǐng jì zhu zhè xiē suō xiě

  Please memorise these abbreviations.

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• 金属冷却的时候会收缩。

  Jīn shǔ lěng què de shí hou huì shōu suō

  Metals contract when they cool.

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• 这只蜗牛将触角缩了回去。

  Zhè zhǐ wō niú jiāng chù jiǎo suō le huí qu

  The snail draws in its feelers.

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• 蜗牛缩进壳里去了。

  Wō niú suō jìn qiào lǐ qù le

  The snail retreated into its shell.

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Words containing 缩

• 缩小suō xiǎo 1–3 to reduce; to decrease; to shrink
• 缩短suō duǎn 1–3 to curtail; to cut down
• 收缩shōu suō 1–1 to pull back; to shrink; to contract; (physiology) systole
• 压缩yā suō 1–1 to compress; compression
• 缩suō 1to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr. [sù]
• 浓缩nóng suō 2–1 to concentrate (a liquid); concentration; espresso coffee; abbr. for 意式浓缩咖啡
• 萎缩wěi suō 3–1 to wither; to dry up (of a plant); to atrophy (of muscle, social custom etc)
• 退缩tuì suō 4–1 to shrink back; to cower
• 缩水suō shuǐ 1–3 to shrink (in the wash); fig. to shrink (of profits etc)
• 缩影suō yǐng 1–3 miniature version of sth; microcosm; epitome; (Tw) to microfilm
• 紧缩jǐn suō 3–1 (economics) to reduce; to curtail; to cut back; to tighten; austerity; tightening; crunch
• 伸缩shēn suō 1–1 to lengthen and shorten; flexible; adjustable; retractable; extensible; telescoping (collapsible)