缩小
suōxiǎo
to reduce, to shrink
Part of speech · verb
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 请把照片缩小一点。Please shrink the photo a bit.
- 我们要努力缩小贫富差距。We should work to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
Collocations
缩小范围缩小差距缩小规模逐渐缩小
Mnemonic
缩 suō "to shrink" + 小 xiǎo "small": to shrink smaller, i.e. to reduce, to narrow. 缩 has the silk radical 纟. 缩小差距 = to narrow the gap, 缩小范围 = to narrow the scope. Opposite of 扩大 (to expand).
Related
缩短减小扩大放大
Quick check
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