HSK 5 · Adjectives

窄 zhǎi “narrow” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 窄 means

  1. narrow
  2. narrow-minded
  3. badly off

How to say 窄

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale窄zhǎi3rd tone, dipping

窄 in a sentence

  1. 门太窄了，这辆车通不过。

    Mén tài zhǎi le, zhè liàng chē tōng bu guò.

    The gate is too narrow for this car to get through.

    Sentence #2029290 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这条路对汽车来说太窄了。

    Zhè tiáo lù duì qìchē lái shuō tài zhǎi le.

    The road is too narrow for cars.

    Sentence #895139 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 他在一条狭窄的道路上走。

    Tā zài yì tiáo xiázhǎi de dàolù shang zǒu.

    He’s walking along a narrow path.

    Sentence #3625821 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 窄 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 窄 (zhǎi) with each of its parts in a different colour
窄zhǎinarrow
  • 穴cave · xuéMeaning part
  • 乍first time · zhàSound part

穴 hints at the meaning (cave); 乍 (zhà) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhǎi.

How to write 窄

窄 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

窄 (zhǎi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 窄 (zhǎi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 窄

Words with 窄

狭窄xiázhǎi · narrow

More words: Adjectives

悠久yōujiǔ · long-standing有利yǒulì · advantageous圆yuán · circle糟糕zāogāo · too bad整齐zhěngqí · orderly真实zhēnshí · true直zhí · straight重大zhòngdà · major

FAQs

窄 (zhǎi) means “narrow” or “narrow-minded”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhǎi: zhǎi with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 窄 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 窄 from the suggestions. Typing zhai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
窄 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.