Shrink

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 標 (Signpost), less common than 徴 (Indication).

Thread on the left is pulled into a cottage on the right -- thread crammed into a tiny cottage shrinks the fabric to fit inside the small space.

In words

縮むちぢむ to shrink,to be contractedN2

縮れるちぢれる to be wavy,to be curledN2

縮めるちぢめる to shorten,to reduce,to boil down,to shrinkN2

縮 is rank 945 of 2,608 in published Japanese.