短 short (length)
- On'yomi
- タン
- Kun'yomi
- みじか-い
- Strokes
- 12
- JLPT
- N4
- Taught in
- Primary school, year 3
In the kun'yomi, the kana after a dash are written after the kanji (okurigana): みじか-い.
Stroke order
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Remember it
An arrow no longer than a bean — far too short to shoot.
A common word
- 短い みじかい short
Example sentences
この鉛筆は短いです。
このえんぴつはみじかいです。
This pencil is short.
夏休みは短かったです。
なつやすみはみじかかったです。
Summer vacation was short.
Kanji that share a part
矢 is its radical.
- 医 medicine
- 知 know
- 族 tribe
- 候 climate N3
- 疑 doubt N3
- 侯 marquis N1
- 疾 disease N1
- 矮 short N1
豆 is a component.
- 頭 head
- 登 ascend N3
- 豊 bountiful N2
- 豈 how N1
- 痘 smallpox N1
- 闘 fight N1