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April 2015

短: short; lack

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning

 

短 duǎn

measure word
: short (opposite of long); brief
: lack
: weak point; fault

Kun Reading

短 | みじか mijika

prefix | suffix
: short; brief

短い | みじかい mijikai

adjective
: short

短め | みじかめ mijikame

noun
: rather short; somewhat short

短すぎる | みじかすぎる mijikasugiru

ichidan verb
: to be too short

On Reading

短 | たん tan

noun
: fault; defect; weak point
: minor (music)

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次: next; time

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning, Music

 

次 cì

measure word
: next in sequence
: second; the second (day, time etc); secondary
: vice-; sub-; infra-
: inferior quality; substandard
: order; sequence
: hypo- (chemistry)
: measure word for enumerated events: time

Kun Reading

次 | つぎ tsugi

noun | no-adjective
: next; following; subsequent
: stage; station

次に | つぎに tsugini

conjunction
: next; then; after that

次ぐ | つぐ tsugu

godan verb with gu ending | intransitive verb
: to rank next to; to come after

次いで | ついで tsuide

adverb | conjunction
: next; secondly; subsequently

次なる | つぎなる tsuginaru

noun
: next; the next

On Reading

次 | じ ji

prefix
: next
: hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence)
: (Counter) order; sequence; time; times

し shi

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條: strip; item

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條 [条] tiáo

measure word
: strip; item
: article; clause (of law or treaty)
: measure word for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers, fishes, some animals)
: note

Kun Reading

条 | すじ suji

noun
: muscle; tendon; sinew
: vein; artery
: fiber; string
: line; stripe; streak
: reason; logic
: plot; storyline
: lineage; descent
: school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
: aptitude; talent
: source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
: well-informed person (in a transaction)
: logical move (in go, shogi)
: ninth vertical line (shogi)
: seam on a helmet
: (Abbreviation) gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
: (Archaism) social position; status; on (a river, road, etc.); along
: counter for long thin things
: (Archaism) (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)

条 | くだり kudari

noun
: passage; paragraph

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條 | じょう jou

used in given names

条 | じょう jou

noun
: article (in document); provision
: stripe; streak; line

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