See 短い in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"form": "短い",
"ruby": [
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[
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"table-tags"
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},
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"source": "inflection",
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"form": "みじかかろ",
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"tags": [
"imperfective",
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},
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"form": "mijikakaro",
"source": "inflection",
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"imperfective"
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},
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},
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},
{
"form": "mijikai",
"source": "inflection",
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"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "短い",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかい",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive"
]
},
{
"form": "短けれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical"
]
},
{
"form": "短かれ",
"source": "inflection",
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"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "短くない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "短かった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短くなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短いです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかいです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "短くないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "短かったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短くなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短くて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakute",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "短ければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakereba",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "短かったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短かろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakarō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "短く",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "短さ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikasa",
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"noun-from-adj"
]
}
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"attributive": "い",
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"degree": "さ",
"formal": "い です",
"formal_negative": "く ない です",
"formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
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"hypothetical": "けれ",
"imperative": "かれ",
"imperfective": "かろ",
"informal_negative": "く ない",
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"text": "Mostly superseded in modern usage by 低い (hikui, “short”, in height)."
}
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],
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],
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[
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"aristocracy"
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],
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[
"intelligence",
"intelligence"
],
[
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[
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"dimwitted"
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[
"dull",
"dull"
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[
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[
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"english": "dim, dull",
"word": "鈍い"
},
{
"english": "shallow, superficial",
"word": "浅薄"
}
]
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[
"attention",
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],
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"english": "shallow-hearted, fickle, unfeeling",
"word": "薄情"
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"word": "変わりやすい"
}
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"english": "hasty, impetuous",
"word": "せっかち"
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"word": "短気"
}
]
}
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}
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},
{
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{
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"tags": [
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"stem"
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},
{
"form": "mijikakaro",
"source": "inflection",
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]
},
{
"form": "短く",
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},
{
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"stem"
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},
{
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"tags": [
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]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
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"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかい",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "短い",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかい",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive"
]
},
{
"form": "短けれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical"
]
},
{
"form": "短かれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "短くない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "短かった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短くなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短いです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかいです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "短くないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "短かったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短くなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku nakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短くて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakute",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "短ければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakereba",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "短かったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "短かろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikakarō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "短く",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikaku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "短さ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "みじかさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "mijikasa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "みじかい",
"infl": "i"
},
"expansion": "短(みじか)い • (mijikai) -i (adverbial 短(みじか)く (mijikaku))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"adverbial": "く",
"attributive": "い",
"conditional": "ければ",
"conjunctive": "くて",
"continuative": "く",
"degree": "さ",
"formal": "い です",
"formal_negative": "く ない です",
"formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
"formal_past": "かった です",
"hypothetical": "けれ",
"imperative": "かれ",
"imperfective": "かろ",
"informal_negative": "く ない",
"informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
"informal_past": "かった",
"kana": "みじか",
"lemma": "短",
"provisional": "かったら",
"terminal": "い",
"volitional": "かろう"
},
"name": "ja-adj-infl"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"short, brief"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"brief",
"brief"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Kagoshima"
],
"word": "みひけ"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"short, brief (in time)"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"brief",
"brief"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"short (in space, from one point to another)"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"short, brief (in length, such as a text or speech)"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"brief",
"brief"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with archaic senses",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Mostly superseded in modern usage by 低い (hikui, “short”, in height)."
}
],
"glosses": [
"short (in height)"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) short (in height)"
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"common, not part of the aristocracy"
],
"links": [
[
"common",
"common"
],
[
"aristocracy",
"aristocracy"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"short on intelligence or maturity: dimwitted, dull; shallow, superficial"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"intelligence",
"intelligence"
],
[
"maturity",
"maturity"
],
[
"dimwitted",
"dimwitted"
],
[
"dull",
"dull"
],
[
"shallow",
"shallow"
],
[
"superficial",
"superficial"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "dim, dull",
"word": "鈍い"
},
{
"english": "shallow, superficial",
"word": "浅薄"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"short of attention: fickle, shallow-hearted, flighty"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"attention",
"attention"
],
[
"fickle",
"fickle"
],
[
"shallow-hearted",
"shallow-hearted"
],
[
"flighty",
"flighty"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "shallow-hearted, fickle, unfeeling",
"word": "薄情"
},
{
"english": "fickle, changeable, unsettled",
"word": "変わりやすい"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"short-tempered, impatient, impetuous"
],
"links": [
[
"short-tempered",
"short-tempered"
],
[
"impatient",
"impatient"
],
[
"impetuous",
"impetuous"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "hasty, impetuous",
"word": "せっかち"
},
{
"english": "quick-tempered, impatient",
"word": "短気"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "みじかい"
},
{
"ipa": "[mʲiʑika̠i]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Man'yōshū"
],
"word": "短い"
}
{
"categories": [
"Japanese adjectives",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with manual fragments",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji",
"Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese い-i adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Shift from standard Japanese mijikai.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "短い",
"ruby": [
[
"短",
"みちか"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "michikai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "短く",
"roman": "michikaku",
"ruby": [
[
"短",
"みちか"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
}
],
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"infl": "i"
},
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"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Ibaraki Japanese",
"Japanese dialectal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"short, brief"
],
"links": [
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"brief",
"brief"
]
],
"qualifier": "Ibaraki dialect",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ibaraki dialect) short, brief"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[mʲit͡ɕika̠i]"
}
],
"word": "短い"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 短い meaning in Japanese (11.2kB)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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