窄
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narrow; narrow-minded; badly off
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 穴 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 窄
- Common rank
- #2,857
- Unicode
- U+7A84
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 窄
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宽打窄用 | to give oneself leeway (idiom); to allow room for error | |
| 冤家路窄 | lit. for enemies, the road is narrow (idiom); fig. rivals inevitably cross paths | |
| 心胸狭窄 | (idiom) narrow-minded; petty; ungenerous | |
| 心窄 | narrow-minded; intolerant | |
| 窄小 | narrow and small | |
| 地窄人稠 | see 地狹人稠|地狭人稠[di4 xia2 ren2 chou2] | |
| 二尖瓣狭窄 | mitral stenosis (physiology) | |
| 尖窄 | pointy; tapered | |
| 宽窄 | width; breadth | |
| 窄缝 | narrow gap; slit | |
| 狭窄 | narrow | |
| 窄狭 | see 狹窄|狭窄[xia2 zhai3] | |
| 窄巷 | narrow alley; narrow street |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乍 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乍 sound part | first time, for the first time, suddenly | |
| 诈 | to cheat, to defraud; sly, treacherous | |
| 怎 | what? why? how? | |
| 咋 | question-forming particle: why? what? how?; to bite; loud | |
| 蚱 | grasshopper; locust, cicada | |
| 昨 | yesterday; formerly, in the past | |
| 柞 | beech, oak; evergreen; to clear away trees | |
| 酢 | a toast to the host | |
| 怍 | ashamed | |
| 祚 | throne; happiness, blessings | |
| 舴 | dinghy, small boat | |
| 苲 | hornwort | |
| 迮 | to press; hasty; cramped | |
| 痄 | scrofulous swellings or lumps | |
| 砟 | stone tablet; monument | |
| 笮 | boards that support roof tiles | |
| 胙 | meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors | |
| 阼 | the steps leading to the eastern door |