漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
短: short, brevity
Also: fault, defect, weak point
JLPT N212 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
矢 carries the meaning · 豆 is drawn in
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
タンtan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 短歌たんかJapanese poetic form
- 短気なたんきなquick tempered
- 短期間たんきかんshort term
- 短所たんしょweak point
- 短期たんきshort-term
- 短大たんだいjunior college
- 短縮たんしゅくshortening; contraction; reduction
みじかいmijikai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 短いみじかいshort
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)矢 (meaning) + 豆 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 短 (rev. 92162227), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Arrow (矢) + bean/vessel (豆). A "short" distance, originally comparing the length of an "arrow" to a standard measuring vessel.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · duǎn
Same form: 短 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 短 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 短 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin duǎn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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