缩 (suō) means Withdraw (contract - shrink - reduce). Below are 8 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我们要 缩 小这个差距。
Wǒmen yào suōxiǎo zhège chājù.
We need to narrow this gap.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 差距
地铁 缩 短了上班时间。
Dìtiě suōduǎn le shàngbān shíjiān.
The subway has shortened the commute.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 缩短
会议时间 缩 短了一半。
Huìyì shíjiān suōduǎn le yíbàn.
The meeting time was cut in half.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 缩短
公司决定收 缩 业务规模。
Gōngsī juédìng shōusuō yèwù guīmó.
The company decided to scale back its operations.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 收缩
请把文件压 缩 后再发送。
Qǐng bǎ wénjiàn yāsuō hòu zài fāsòng.
Please compress the file before sending it.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 压缩
公司压 缩 了不必要的开支。
Gōngsī yāsuō le bù bìyào de kāizhī.
The company cut unnecessary spending.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 压缩
北极的冰面正在一年年 缩 小。
Běijí de bīngmiàn zhèngzài yì nián nián suōxiǎo.
The ice at the North Pole is shrinking year by year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 北极
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Words that contain 缩
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Questions about 缩
How is 缩 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 缩 (suō, "Withdraw (contract - shrink - reduce)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 缩 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 缩 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 缩?
The dictionary page for 缩 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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