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短

duǎn

1. short

2. brief

3. to lack

4. weak point

5. fault

HSK 3 Very Common • Top 2% ✏️ 12 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

brief, short; deficient, lacking

Compound Words (20)

brief (in time)

short pass (in ball game)

to be short of the full amount

short term loan

to fall short in one's payments

short stave of the barrel (which allows the contents to escape)

of short duration

narrow and shallow

stocky (short and robust)

good prospects in the short term (finance)

Example Sentences (1)

女儿变化不小，她小时候喜欢短头发，像男孩子一样。

Nǚ'ér biànhuà bù xiǎo, tā xiǎo shíhou xǐhuan duǎn tóufa, xiàng nán háizi yíyàng.

My daughter has changed a lot. When she was little, she liked short hair, like a boy.

Metadata

Category: Chinese
HSK Character Level: 3
Character Frequency Rank: 888
Word Frequency Rank: 1,902 of 84,292