• 短期たんき

  short-term

• 短銃たんじゅう

  pistol

• 短波たんぱ

  short wave

• 短調たんちょう

  minor key

• 短いみじかい

  short

• 短命たんめい

  short life, short lived

• 短歌たんか

  tanka, 31-mora Japanese poem

• 短編たんぺん

  short (e.g. story, film)

• 短めみじかめ

  shortish, rather short, somewhat short

• 短刀たんとう

  short sword, knife, dagger, dirk, tantō

• 短所たんしょ

  defect, demerit, weak point, disadvantage

• 短気たんき

  short temper, quick temper, hot temper, impatience, irritability

• 短縮たんしゅく

  shortening, contraction, reduction, curtailment, abbreviation

• 短大たんだい

  junior college, vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution

• 短冊たんざく

  tanzaku, long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically)

• 短絡たんらく

  short circuit, short

• 長短ちょうたん

  (relative) length

• 最短さいたん

  shortest

• 短時間たんじかん

  short time

• 短期間たんきかん

  short term, short time

• 短距離たんきょり

  short distance, short range, short-haul

• 短期大学たんきだいがく

  junior college, community college, vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution

• 短みじか

  short, brief

• 短たん

  fault, defect, weak point

• 短詩たんし

  verselet

• 短音たんおん

  short sound

• 短槍たんそう

  short spear

• 短句たんく

  short phrase

• 短眠たんみん

  short sleep

• 短躯たんく

  short stature

• 短毛たんもう

  short hair

• 短靴たんぐつ

  (low) shoes

• 短軸たんじく

  minor axis

• 短路たんろ

  short circuit

• 短日たんじつ

  short time

• 短見たんけん

  narrow view

• 短髪たんぱつ

  short hair

• 短資たんし

  short-term loan

• 短足たんそく

  short-legged

• 短針たんしん

  short hand, hour hand

• 短小たんしょう

  short and small

• 短呼たんこ

  shortening a vowel

• 短点たんてん

  dot (in Morse code)

• 短筒たんづつ

  pistol, revolver

• 短夜みじかよ

  short summer night

• 短さみじかさ

  brevity, shortness

• 短少たんしょう

  short and insufficient

• 短辺たんぺん

  short sides of a rectangle

• 短打たんだ

  chopping

• 短信たんしん

  brief note, brief letter, brief message