狭
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narrow; narrow-minded
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 犬 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 狹
- Common rank
- #2,364
- Unicode
- U+72ED
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
narrow · Heisig RSH #1588
pack of wild dogs + 夹 press from both sides
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 狭
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狭义相对论 | (physics) special relativity | |
| 狭路相逢 | lit. to meet face to face on a narrow path (idiom); fig. enemies or rivals meet face to fa… | |
| 狭小 | narrow | |
| 狭长 | long and narrow | |
| 狭义 | narrow sense; restricted sense | |
| 狭路 | gorge | |
| 地狭人稠 | (idiom) small and densely populated | |
| 心胸狭窄 | (idiom) narrow-minded; petty; ungenerous | |
| 狭谷 | glen | |
| 偏狭 | prejudiced; narrow-minded | |
| 心胸狭隘 | narrow; petty-minded | |
| 促狭鬼 | mischievous fellow; rascal | |
| 二尖瓣狭窄 | mitral stenosis (physiology) | |
| 狭径 | narrow lane | |
| 束狭 | narrow (of waterway); a bottleneck | |
| 促狭 | (coll.) teasing; mischievous; (coll.) cunning; sly | |
| 狭窄 | narrow | |
| 窄狭 | see 狹窄|狭窄[xia2 zhai3] | |
| 狭隘 | (of a path etc) narrow; (of a living space etc) cramped; (of a way of thinking, a definiti… | |
| 褊狭 | narrow; small-minded |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夹 — compare how they read.