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縮ちぢれる

ちぢれる chijireru Play N2 Ichidan verb Intransitive

Meanings and examples

髪や糸などが、波打ったり巻いたりした状態になる。 to be wavy; to be curled

Example 1

パーマをかけたので、髪かみの毛けが縮ちぢれています。

Now I have curly hair, because I had a perm.

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Example 2

雨にぬれると、髪が縮れてしまう。

When my hair gets wet in the rain, it gets curly.

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Kanji breakdown

縮

N1

shrink; contract; shrivel; wrinkle; reduce

On reading
シュク
Kun reading
ちぢ.む、ちぢ.まる、ちぢ.める、ちぢ.れる、ちぢ.らす
Radical
糸
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圧縮

N2

あっしゅく

compression; condensation; pressure

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恐縮

N2

きょうしゅく

shame; very kind of you; sorry to trouble

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縮む

N2

ちぢむ

to shrink; to be contracted

Illustration of 縮める

縮める

N2

ちぢめる

to shorten; to reduce; to boil down; to shrink

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縮小

N2

しゅくしょう

reduction; curtailment