EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Intransitive verb

    to wither (of flowers, dreams, etc.); to wilt; to droop; to shrivel; to fade (away); to sag; to deflate

    Usually written using kana alone

    花は切られるとすぐにしぼむ。
    Flowers soon fade when they have been cut.

Also written 凋む【しぼむ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

wither, droop, lame

Kun
しお.れるしな.びるしぼ.むな.える
On
Strokes
11
Taught
Junior high
Radical
grass

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Dictionary and index codes (16)
CodeReference
2-3-8, 2-4-8SKIP code
3k8.18The Kanji Dictionary
4440.4Four corner code
840eUnicode hex code
1-16-64JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3973Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5087New Nelson (John Haig)
2478New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1996Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2355Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
986Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
31269XMorohashi
2082Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
wei1, wei3Pinyin reading
wiKorean reading