短短

Chinese

		lack; short	lack; short
simp. and trad. (短短)		短	短

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duǎnduǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄉㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun² dyun²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tón-tón
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): té-té

  (Teochew, Peng'im): do² do²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duǎnduǎn [Phonetic: duánduǎn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄉㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duǎnduǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tuan³-tuan³
    • Yale: dwǎn-dwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doandoan
    • Palladius: дуаньдуань (duanʹduanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dyun² dyun²
    • Yale: dyún dyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn² dyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dün² dün²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn³⁵ tyːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tón-tón
    • Hakka Romanization System: don` don`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: don³ don³
    • Sinological IPA: /ton³¹ ton³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: té-té
    • Tâi-lô: té-té
    • Phofsit Daibuun: defdea
    • IPA (Taipei): /te⁵³⁻⁴⁴ te⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /te⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ te⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: do² do²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tó tó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /to⁵²⁻³⁵ to⁵²⁻²¹/

Adjective

短短

1. brief; short

   沒想到短短一個月，他的廚藝竟然已進步到這個境界！ [MSC, trad.]
   没想到短短一个月，他的厨艺竟然已进步到这个境界！ [MSC, simp.]

   Méi xiǎngdào duǎnduǎn yīge yuè, tā de chúyì jìngrán yǐ jìnbù dào zhège jìngjiè! [Pinyin]

   Who would have thought that in a short little month, his cooking would have improved to this extent!