狭い

せまい · semai · JLPT N5 · i-adj

narrow

🚪 Sounds like say my: say my room is too narrow, semai!

Semai is the opposite of hiroi (wide, spacious). The kanji 狭 also appears in 狭小 (kyōshō, cramped), so the same character carries the narrow sense in compounds. Complaining a room is tight? Semai is the word.

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