Kanji Course
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Section 18
短
Meaning:
In Japanese, 短 means “short”.
How to read it:
| Kunyomi | みじか |
| Onyomi | たん |
How to write it:
Origin:
You can see an arrow, an arrow is used as a standard thing. If something is shorter than an arrow, then we can say this thing is short. So 短 stands for “short”.
Development:
Vocabulary:
| Level | Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 短い | みじかい | short |
| Inter | 短期 | たんき | short term |
| Adv | 短縮 | たんしゅく | shortening |
| Adv | 短編 | たんぺん | short story |
| Adv | 短所 | たんしょ | cons |
| H_Adv | 最短 | さいたん | shortest |
| H_Adv | 短大 | たんだい | junior college |
| H_Adv | 短絡 | たんらく | short circuit |
| H_Adv | 短冊 | たんざく | strip |
| H_Adv | 短気 | たんき | impatient |
| S_Adv | 短剣 | たんけん | dagger |
| S_Adv | 短刀 | たんとう | dagger |
| S_Adv | 短命 | たんめい | short-lived |
| S_Adv | 手短 | てみじか | short |
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