Kanji1 / 12
短 kanji
short, brevity, fault, defect, weak point
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
タン
Kun readings
みじかい
Words with 短
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2短期Popularshort-term
- N2短所Populardefect; demerit; weak point; disadvantage
- N2長短Popular(relative) length; advantages and disadvantages; pluses and minuses; strong and weak points; merits and demerits
- N2短編Popularshort story; short film; short poem
- N1短歌Populartanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
- N1短気Popularshort temper; quick temper; hot temper; impatience; irritability
- N1短縮Popularshortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
- N1短大Popularjunior college; vocationally oriented post-secondary institution offering two or three-year programs
- N1短波Popularshort wave
- —最短Popularshortest
- —短冊Populartanzaku; poem slip; poetry slip; long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); thin rectangle
- —短銃Popularpistol
- —短調Popularminor key
- —短刀Popularshort sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
- —短命Popularshort life; short lived
- —短絡Popularshort circuit; short; illogical jump; drawing a hasty inference (between two events); jumping to conclusions; acting rashly
- —短距離Popularshort distance; short range; short-haul
- —短時間Popularshort time
- —短期間Popularshort term; short time
- —短期大学Popularjunior college; vocationally oriented post-secondary institution offering two or three-year programs