簡 — Chinese character
簡
jiǎn
simple, succinct, terse; a letter
- Pinyin
- jiǎn
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 間
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 間
- Simplified
- 简
- Japanese
- 簡 as a kanji
簡 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 8 · Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 6 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 5.21
- Analects 6.1
- Analects 14.22
- Analects 20.1
- Mencius 3B.1
- Mencius 4B.27
- Mencius 7B.37
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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