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短命

20 strokes in total

📖 English Meaning

meteoric, ephemerality, passing

Pronunciation

Hiragana:

たんめい

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Romaji:

tanmei

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Character Meanings

短 short; brief; deficient, lacking

命 life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction

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