低矮 | dī ǎi | short; low | |
矮小 | ǎi xiǎo | short and small; low and small; undersized | |
矮胖 | ǎi pàng | short and stout; dumpy; roly-poly | |
高矮 | gāo ǎi | height (i.e. whether short or tall) | |
矮墩墩 | ǎi dūn dūn | pudgy; dumpy; stumpy |
1 | She is unlike her mother; she is tall and her mother is very short. | |
2 | He is neither tall nor short. He is medium height. | |
3 | She was a grade lower than me in middle school. | |
4 | But we call him "Big Jim" because he' s so short. | |
5 | They loved how I sang and how I danced, but there was one problem: I was too short. |