簡 — Chinese character

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

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