短い

Kana: みじかい

short (in length)

Example sentence

彼女の髪は短いです。

かのじょのかみはみじかいです。

Her hair is short.

What 短い means

短い (みじかい) is a Japanese word meaning “short (in length)”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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