Pinyin: duǎn

short (length)

Example sentence

她的头发很短。

Tā de tóufa hěn duǎn.

Her hair is very short.

What 短 means

(duǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “short (length)”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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