短

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

短 (radical 111 矢+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人大一口廿 (OKMRT), four-corner 8141₈, composition ⿰矢豆)

References

• KangXi: page 824, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23978
• Dae Jaweon: page 1237, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2584, character 3
• Unihan data for U+77ED

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		短

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duǎn (duan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): tón
• Min Nan (POJ): té
• Wu (WT Romanisation): toe (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: duǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tuan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doan
    • IPA ^(key): /tu̯a̠n²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dyun²
    • Yale: dyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn²
    • IPA ^(key): /tyːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tón
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ton³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: té
    • Tâi-lô: té
    • IPA (Taipei): /te⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /te⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: toe (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /tø³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (短, reconstructed)
Character (短), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 桓 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 都管切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tuɑnX/	/tuɑnX/	/tuɑnX/	/tʷɑnX/	/twanX/	/tuɑnX/	/tuɑnX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (短, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
短								duǎn								‹ twanX ›								/*tˤorʔ/								short
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
短					2480					豆					元					3					短					/*toːnʔ/

Adjective

短

1. short, brief
2. deficient, lacking

Antonyms

• 長／长

Compounds

Derived terms

• 短不了 (duǎnbùliao)

• 短促 (duǎncù)

• 短兵相接 (duǎnbīngxiāngjiē)

• 短刀 (duǎndāo)

• 短号 (duǎnhào)

• 短命 (duǎnmìng)

• {短暂 (duǎnzàn)

• 短期 (duǎnqī, duǎnqí)

• 短波 (duǎnbō)

• 短笛 (duǎndí)

• 短缺 (duǎnquē)

• 短袄 (duǎnǎo)

• 短裤 (duǎnkù)

• 短视 (duǎnshì)

• 短跑 (duǎnpǎo)

• 短传

• 短剑

• 短剧

• 短发

• 短命鬼, 短命鬼儿

• 短处

• 短大衣

• 短小

• 短小精悍

• 短少

• 短工, 短工儿

• 短平快

• 短打

• 短打扮儿

• 短拳

• 短枪

• 短欠

• 短款

• 短气

• 短浅

• 短球

• 短秤

• 短程

• 短简, 短柬

• 短篇小说

• 短粗

• 短线

• 短线产品

• 短衫

• 短袖

• 短袜

• 短装
• 短裙

• 短褂儿

• 短见

• 短训班

• 短讯

• 短评

• 短语

• 短距离

• 短路

• 短途

• 短长

• 短靴

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Japanese

Kanji

短

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. short
2. lack
3. lacked point
4. make a thing short
5. point disadvantages

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: みじかい (mijikai)

Compounds

Derived terms

短音 短歌 短気 短期 短距離 短剣 短冊 短銃 短所 短小 短針 短調 短刀 短文 短編 短命 短慮 短暂

References

JIS: 433B Kuten: 3527 Shift JIS: 925A EUC-JP: C3BB Frequency: 689 Nelson: 3172

New Nelson: 3982 Halpern: 3277 Halpern Learners: 801 Heisig: 1442 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3d9.27

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

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Korean

Hanja

短 (dan) (hangeul 단, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Compounds

• 短簫

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Vietnamese

Han character

短 (đoản, đuỗn, ngắn, vắn)

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