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短 — short; brief; to lack

short; brief; to lack; weak point; fault

Pinyin
duǎn
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 短: 12 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

短 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 短 in the HSK syllabus: 10

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 短duǎnshort; brief; to lack; weak point; faultHSK 3
  2. 短裤duǎnkùshort pants; shortsHSK 3
  3. 短信duǎnxìntext message; SMSHSK 4
  4. 短处duǎnchùshortcoming; defect; fault; one's weak pointsHSK 5
  5. 短期duǎnqīshort-termHSK 5
  6. 缩短suōduǎnto shorten; to reduce; to curtailHSK 5
  7. 长短chángduǎnlength; accident; mishapHSK 6
  8. 短缺duǎnquēshortageHSK 6
  9. 短暂duǎnzànof short duration; brief; momentaryHSK 7–9
  10. 简短jiǎnduǎnbrief; briefly; brevityHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.