Meaning
contract · cramped · narrow · tight
On'yomi
キョウ · コウ
Kun'yomi
さ · せば.まる · せば.める · せま.い
Common compounds (10)
- 狭間 はさまloophole (in a wall); crenel; eyelet
- 手ぜま てぜまnarrow; small; cramped
- 狭心症 きょうしんしょうangina pectoris
- 偏狭 へんきょうnarrow-mindedness; intolerance; illiberality; narrowness
- 狭き門 せまきもんthe strait gate (in the Bible); the narrow gate
- 架 かrack; mount; stand
- 狭める せばめるto narrow; to reduce; to contract
- 狭まる せばまるto narrow; to contract
- 狭義 きょうぎnarrow sense (e.g. of a word)
- 狭い せまいlimited; narrow-minded; confining