短
duǎn HSK2

short

短 duǎn
short adjective
not long in physical length or time duration

冬天的白天比夏天短。

dōng​tiān de bái​tiān bǐ xià​tiān duǎn.

Winter days are shorter than summer days.

shortcoming adjective
a person's weak point or fault

不要当众揭人的短。

bù yào dāng​zhòng jiē rén de duǎn.

Don't expose others' shortcomings in public.

lack verb
to be short of or missing a required amount

秤不准，短了半斤。

chèng bù zhǔn, duǎn le bàn jīn.

The scale is inaccurate; it's short by half a jin.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)