Keyword
narrow
Info
FrequencyTop 1100-1200
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig1356
Old form狹
Readings
せま
(67%)
はさ
(7%)
はざ
(7%)
せば
(5%)
せ
(5%)
ぜま
(1%)
さ
(1%)
Composed of
animal
husband
horns
Used in vocabulary (66 in total)
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
gap; narrow space between things; valley; gorge; loophole (in a castle wall); arrow slit
to narrow; to contract
Examples (79 in total)
This cramped room is her world.
Isn't that narrower than before?
Isn't that precisely a narrow-minded way of thinking?
My field of vision is steadily narrowing.
The room is so small that there's no space for a desk.
This is why the room becomes cramped.
It's so narrow that you can't even place a single piano.
It is a relatively narrow range.
There is no need to go out of your way to crawl through a narrow hole.
Our home is small, but please take your time and relax.
Is the width of the table narrow?
The vertical field of human vision is narrow.
It would be terrible if you got stuck in a narrow place.
It seems the girl forced the doll out through the narrow gap.
This narrow box is a bit cramped for fighting.
Having a narrow field of vision also means having many blind spots.
When you concentrate, your field of vision narrows and you become unable to see your surroundings.
It is no longer a time to shut oneself away in a narrow world.
This room is small, but in exchange the rent is cheap.
The streets around here are narrow, and the buildings are packed too closely together.
He has a narrow way of looking at things.
Since three people are lingering on the bed, it is unbearably cramped.
This is too small a house for us to live in.
Roads are narrow in this town.
This room is too small for us.
This room is too small.
The house is too small for five people to live in.
What a small world!
What narrow stairs!
My room is smaller than my brother's.
They walked along a narrow path.
It's a small room, isn't it?
We walked along a narrow path.
My house is small and cramped.
My room is very small.
It's a beautiful house. The problem is that it's tiny.
The gate is too narrow for the car.
The street is very narrow.
My room is small, but it's big enough for me.
The road which leads to the hotel is narrow.
The staircase leading to the rooftop is narrow, steep, and dark.
He is always complaining of his room being small.
The kitchen is a little bit too small.
We think that the narrow road was responsible for the accident.
Our world is getting smaller and smaller every year.
There is a small garden in front of my house.
This road is too narrow for trucks to pass.
The gate was too narrow for the truck.
The gate is so narrow that the car can't pass through it.
Our current house is too small, so we decided to move.
We must make the best of the small room.
We made the best of our small room.
I have to make the best of that small room.
There's narrow road to the village.
The balcony is small.
He fluctuated between hope and despair.
The studio is very small, with no place to hide.
He complained of his room being small.
He complains of the room being so small.
Tom's room is very small.
Tom's room was a lot smaller than I expected it to be.
The valley narrows 500 feet ahead.
The gap between them has narrowed.
Thanks to the development of aircraft, the world has become much smaller.
This house is too small to live in.
This room's too small. We need a larger one.
This house is very small.
The Netherlands is a small country.
This room is cramped.
I want to move out of this cramped room as soon as I can.
Streets are often twisted and narrow in the suburbs.
At this point the sea narrows into a strait.
Tom's apartment is small, but it's very cozy.
There is a narrow path running along the cliff.
The road across the mountain was narrow, and what's more, it was a steep slope.
The river suddenly narrows at this point.
I think Tom is narrow-minded.
He remembered that Room 418, a very small room, was empty.
I had an angina attack.