短い

みじかい
short

Reading

Readingみじかい
N5 VocabJLPT N5adj-i
Kanji短

Meanings

  1. short
  1. briefadj-i

Synonyms

ショート

Antonyms

長い

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

東京の列車は十両でも短いと言われますが、うちの地元は長くて二両だよ。
とうきょうのれっしゃはじゅうりょうでもみじかいといわれますが、うちのじもとはながくてにりょうだよ。Trains in Tokyo are said to be short even with ten cars, but where I'm from, the longest is two cars.
時間が短くすむのが最大のメリット
じかんがみじかくすむのがさいだいのめりっとThe biggest merit is it takes less time.
最近の秋は短いです。
さいきんのあきはみじかいです。Autumn is short lately.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

短
い

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 短い

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked