短 — kanji meaning “short”
短
short, brevity, fault, defect, weak point
- Meanings
- short, brevity, fault, defect, weak point
- On'yomi
- タン (tan)
- Kun'yomi
- みじか.い
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- 3
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #689 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 111
- Chinese reading
- duǎn — Chinese character page
Words with 短
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 短期 | たんき tanki | short-term |
| 短縮 | たんしゅく tanshuku | shortening; contraction; reduction |
| 短い | みじかい mijikai | short |
| 短歌 | たんか tanka | tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem |
| 短大 | たんだい tandai | junior college; vocationally oriented post-secondary institution offering two or three-year programs |
| 短期間 | たんきかん tankikan | short term; short time |
| 短時間 | たんじかん tanjikan | short time |
| 短編 | たんぺん tanpen | short story; short film; short poem |
| 短所 | たんしょ tansho | defect; demerit; weak point |
| 最短 | さいたん saitan | shortest |
| 短期大学 | たんきだいがく tankidaigaku | junior college; vocationally oriented post-secondary institution offering two or three-year programs |
| 短波 | たんぱ tanpa | short wave |
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