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短

short
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingタン
Kun readingみじか.い
JōyōGrade 3
  1. brief

Popular Usage

短い

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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dart · drop (丶) · heavens · beans · table · one (一) · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1550

Compound words

短いみじかい
short; brief
最短さいたん
shortest
短歌たんか
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
短期たんき
short-term
短気たんき
short temper; quick temper; hot temper; impatience; irritability
短冊たんざく
tanzaku; poem slip; poetry slip; long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); thin rectangle
短銃たんじゅう
pistol
短縮たんしゅく
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
短所たんしょ
defect; demerit; weak point; disadvantage
短大たんだい
junior college; vocationally oriented post-secondary institution offering two or three-year programs
短調たんちょう
minor key
短刀たんとう
short sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
短波たんぱ
short wave
短命たんめい
short life; short lived
短絡たんらく
short circuit; short; illogical jump; drawing a hasty inference (between two events); jumping to conclusions
長短ちょうたん
(relative) length; advantages and disadvantages; pluses and minuses; strong and weak points; merits and demerits
短編たんぺん
short story; short film; short poem
短めみじかめ
shortish; rather short; somewhat short
短距離たんきょり
short distance; short range; short-haul
短時間たんじかん
short time
短期間たんきかん
short term; short time
短期大学たんきだいがく
junior college; vocationally oriented post-secondary institution offering two or three-year programs

Stroke Order

12 strokes

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