短

HSK 3#983 by frequencyradical 矢

duǎn["a"]

short; brief; to lack; weak point; fault

Examples

短回答是是。

The short answer is yes.

她的头发很短。

Her hair is very short.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.