Kanji List

短

• kun: みじか.い
• on: タン
• meaning: short, brevity, fault, defect, weak point
• words:

  Word	Reading	Meaning
  短期	たんき	short term
  短大	たんだい	junior college
  短歌	たんか	tanka, 31-syllable Japanese poem
  短縮	たんしゅく	shortening, abbreviation, reduction
  長短	ちょうたん	length; long and short, advantages and disadvantages, pluses and minuses, strong and weak points, merits and demerits
  短期間	たんきかん	short term, short time
  短時間	たんじかん	short time
  短距離	たんきょり	short distance, short range, short-haul
  短編	たんぺん	short (e.g. story, film)
  短銃	たんじゅう	pistol, revolver