jiānjiàn

space

Depicts sunlight () shining through the gap in a door ().

Components
門 iconic component

  Iconic component

mén

  

door

日 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

sun

Definitions

() 

jiān

interval, space; place, between; between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms

() 

jiàn

gap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent

Most common words with 間
Freq.
Word
Meaning

时间

time

之间

between

between

房间

room

空间

space

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤre[n]

kean

jiān

interval

*kˤre[n]

kean

jiān

間關 sound of a chariot's linchpin (Ode 218.1)

*N-kˤre[n]

hean

xián

idle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.8948% of movies

141st most common character in movies

135th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+9593


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