タン, みじか.い
short, brevity, fault, defect, weak point

This kanji has 12 strokes: 5 in the "arrow" radical (や) and 7 other strokes.

Sample compounds (19) :


  1. たんめい
    short life

  2. たんけん
    dagger, hour hand

  3. じたん
    shortening of time

  4. たんか
    tanka, 31-syllable Japanese poem

  5. たんき
    (an) quick temper

  6. きがみじかい
    to be quick-tempered, to have little patience

  7. たんぱ
    short wave

  8. たんぺん
    short (e.g. story, film)

  9. たんし
    verselet
  10. 調
    たんちょう
    minor key (music)
  11. 調
    ロたんちょう
    B minor
  12. 調
    ホたんちょう
    E minor
  13. 調
    ヘたんちょう
    F minor
  14. 調
    ハたんちょう
    C minor
  15. 調
    トたんちょう
    G minor
  16. 調
    イたんちょう
    A minor

  17. たんしん
    hour hand

  18. たんじゅう
    pistol, revolver

  19. ちょうたん
    length, long & short, +-
Kanji Character : 短
Kuten Encoding : 3527
SJIS Encoding : 433b
Unicode Encoding : 77ed
Old Nelson Index : 3172
Radical Number : 111
Frequency Ranking : 760
Gakken Index : 789
Grade Level : 3
Halpern Index : 1182
Heisig Index : 1442
Henshall Index : 342
New Nelson Index : 3982
O'Neil Index : 1633
Stroke Count : 12
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 3d9.27
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 9
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : d
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 27
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 215
SKIP Code : 1-5-7
De Roo Code : 2373
Four Corner Code : 8141.8
Korean reading : dan
Pinyin reading : duan3
Morohashi Index String : 23978
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 8.0290
Morohashi Index Number : 23978
Morohashi Page : 290
Morohashi Volume : 8
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2373
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