狭隘

xiá ài · HSK 7

narrow

🛤️ 狭 (narrow) + 隘 (mountain pass) = both halves mean narrow; doubled-up narrowness, even of the mind

Both characters carry the sense of narrow or cramped: 狭 is a narrow space, 隘 is a tight strait or mountain pass. Stacked together they push past the physical to mean narrow-minded or short on experience.

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