Illustration: At the entrance of a Japanese home, a shopper lifts a large, handsome open-weave basket full of vegetables. It easily holds a daikon and a cabbage, but several small cherry tomatoes have slipped through its wide gaps and rolled across the entrance floor.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

短たん所しょ

tansho

weak point, disadvantage

Example sentences

  1. すべての人ひとは長所ちょうしょと短所たんしょを持もっている。

    Everybody has his merits and demerits.

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  2. 誰だれにでも長所ちょうしょと短所たんしょがある。

    Everyone has both strong and weak points.

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  3. なんにでも、長所ちょうしょと短所たんしょの両方りょうほうがある。

    There are pros and cons to anything.

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Kanji in 短所

  • 短short; brevityOnタンKunみじかい
  • 所place; extentOnショKunところ・どころ・とこ

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