短 — short, brevity, fault

みじかい短 short

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes size

U+77ED Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #689 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1550 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

short
brevity
fault
defect
weak point

word

みじか mijika Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

短(みじか) い mijikai short

たん tan On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

短(たん) 期(き) tanki short term 短(たん) 期(き) 間(かん) tankikan short period 短(たん) 時(じ) 間(かん) tanjikan short period of time 短(たん) tan short 短(たん) 大(だい) tandai junior college 短(たん) 歌(か) tanka tanka 短(たん) 所(しょ) tansho shortcoming 最(さい) 短(たん) saitan shortest

Appears in idioms

一長一短四字熟語

one, long, one, short

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

や矢 arrow #111

まめ豆 beans #151

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#111 矢 arrow