Suppose that X and Y are quasiconvex and complete metric spaces, that G ⊂ X and G ′ ⊂ Y are domains, and that f : G → G ′ is a homeomorphism. In this paper, we first give some basic properties of short arcs, and then we show that: if f is a weakly quasisymmetric mapping and G ′ is a quasiconvex domain, then the image f (D) of every uniform subdomain D in G is uniform. As an application, we get that if f is a weakly quasisymmetric mapping and G ′ is an uniform domain, then the images of the short arcs in G under f are uniform arcs in the sense of diameter.