hanzi of "zuk/soek"

[Diane]

Hi!

I was having a lot of trouble looking up the hanzi for two words with pronunciations "zuk/soek," which in English sound like sook (past tense of seek).

The hanzi of zuk/soek that I'm looking for are 1) "to shrink" (suk jo sui) - like shrink from water... and 2) the version of "suk sai" when garbage is decomposed it's "suk sai"

Thank you!

[Terence]

1 and 2 are the same character, 縮

[Radagasty]

Diane wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I was having a lot of trouble looking up the hanzi for two
> words with pronunciations "zuk/soek," which in English sound
> like sook (past tense of seek).

Not to split hairs, but isn't the past tense of 'seek' 'sought'?

Sebastian.

[Casey]

The first word is 缩 (to shrink)
The second word is 馊 (food turns bad)