縮れる

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 縮れる is read as ちぢれる and is an intransitive verb for hair curling or material shriveling into a wrinkled form because of heat or another cause.
• Basic usage: Hair appears in 髪が縮れる, while heat-altered paper appears in 紙の端が熱で縮れる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Difference from 縮む
  • 縮む broadly means becoming smaller or shorter; 縮れる centers on curling or contracting into a wrinkled shape.
• Intransitive construction
  • The changing item takes が, as in 髪が縮れる; the verb does not present an agent deliberately shrinking an object.