縮短

See also: 缩短

Chinese

		to withdraw; to pull back; to contract to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce	lack; short
trad. (縮短)		縮	短
simp. (缩短)		缩	短

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): suōduǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛㄉㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): suk¹ dyun²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sok-toán / sok-té / siok-toán / siok-té / sok-tér

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: suōduǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛㄉㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: suoduǎn
  - Wade–Giles: so¹-tuan³
  - Yale: swō-dwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suodoan
  - Palladius: содуань (soduanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ɔ⁵⁵ tu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: suk¹ dyun²
  - Yale: sūk dyún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁷ dyn²
  - Guangdong Romanization: sug¹ dün²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚⁵ tyːn³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sok-toán
  - Tâi-lô: sok-tuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sokdoarn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔk̚³²⁻⁵ tuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ tuan⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tuan⁵³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sok-té
  - Tâi-lô: sok-té
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sokdea
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔk̚³²⁻⁵ te⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /sɔk̚³²⁻⁴ te⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔk̚³²⁻⁴ te⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok-toán
  - Tâi-lô: siok-tuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siokdoarn
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tuan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔk̚³²⁻⁵ tuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /siɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tuan⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok-té
  - Tâi-lô: siok-té
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siokdea
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚³²⁻⁴ te⁵³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔk̚³²⁻⁵ te⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sok-tér
  - Tâi-lô: sok-tér
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ tə⁵⁵⁴/

Verb

縮短

to shorten; to decrease in length; to decrease in distance