Illustration: At a Japanese family’s kitchen table, an adult has already finished sewing a loose button onto a child’s school cardigan. A small hourglass turned over at the start still has almost all its sand in the upper chamber, with only a shallow sprinkle below.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

短たん時じ間かん

tanjikan

short time

Example sentences

  1. そんな短時間たんじかんではやれません。

    I cannot do it in such a brief time.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 短時間たんじかんで多額たがくのお金かねを得えることは容易よういではなかった。

    It was not easy to get a lot of money in a short time.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしたちは会合かいごうは短時間たんじかんで終おわると思おもっていたが、実際じっさいにはほぼ３時間じかんも続つづいた。

    We thought the meeting was going to be short, but it actually went on for almost three hours.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 短時間

  • 短short; brevityOnタンKunみじかい
  • 時time; hourOnジKunとき
  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい

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