Illustration: Inside a Japanese community sports hall, a staff member unhooks a retractable queue belt to connect the entrance directly to the reception desk. The old route still winds through several empty rows of barriers, making the removed detour easy to see.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

短たん縮しゅく

tanshuku

to shorten, to reduce

Example sentences

  1. その橋はしのおかげで、私達わたしたちは大おおいに時間じかんが短縮たんしゅくできた。

    The bridge saved us a lot of time.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. これらの労働者ろうどうしゃを一時解雇いちじかいこするかわりに、彼等かれらの労働時間ろうどうじかんを短縮たんしゅくすればよいじゃないか。

    Instead of laying off these workers, why don’t we just cut their hours?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれらは労働時間ろうどうじかんの短縮たんしゅくを要求ようきゅうしている。

    They are demanding shorter working hours.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 短縮

  • 短short; brevityOnタンKunみじかい
  • 縮shrink; contractOnシュクKunちぢむ・ちぢまる・ちぢめる

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