short, brevity, fault, defect, weak point

Radicals

Common words

• 短い【みじかい】
  short, brief
• 短期【たんき】
  short-term
• 短大【たんだい】
  junior college, vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution
• 短縮【たんしゅく】
  shortening, contraction, reduction, curtailment, abbreviation
• 短歌【たんか】
  tanka, 31-mora Japanese poem
• 長短【ちょうたん】
  (relative) length, 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
• 最短【さいたん】
  shortest
• 短命【たんめい】
  short life, short lived
• 短絡【たんらく】
  short circuit, short, illogical jump, drawing a hasty inference (between two events), jumping to conclusions, acting rashly
• 短調【たんちょう】
  minor key
• 短期大学【たんきだいがく】
  junior college, vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution
• 短冊【たんざく】
  tanzaku, long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically), thin rectangle
• 短所【たんしょ】
  defect, demerit, weak point, disadvantage
• 短波【たんぱ】
  short wave
• 短め【みじかめ】
  shortish, rather short, somewhat short