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CHINESE CHARACTER
suō
縮
縮
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shrink; contract; reduce
- Numbered pinyin
- suo1
- English meanings
- to shrink; to contract; to reduce; to draw back
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that which
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rope; to search; to demand
to withdraw
lock; chain
lock
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