短
duǎn HSK2

short

短 duǎn
short adjective
short in length or duration; brief

你知道人生有多短吗？

nǐ zhī​dao rén​shēng yǒu duō duǎn ma?

Do you know how short life is?

在1350年的欧洲，男性的服装突然变短了。

zài1350 nián de ōu​zhōu, nán​xìng de fú​zhuāng tū​rán biàn duǎn le.

In Europe in 1350, men’s clothing suddenly became shorter.

to lack nounadjective
to lack; to owe; to be short of something
shallow adjective
(bound form) shallow; limited in knowledge or experience
weak point
(bound form) a person's shortcomings or faults
to slander
(literary) to speak ill of someone; to slander
surname
a Chinese surname
to rob
(literary or dialectal) to intercept and rob; to seize

Cross-References

Antonym

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
889th most common 195.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,008th most common 104.0 per million appears in 42% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
68.7 per million appears in 22% of films
Written text
174.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+77ED

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)