間 — Chinese character
間
jiān
between, among; midpoint; space, place, locality
- Pinyin
- jiān
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 門 日
- Formation
- ideographic — The sun 日 shining through a doorway 門
- Simplified
- 间
- Japanese
- 間 as a kanji
間 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Analects 5 · Art of War 35 · Mencius 6 · Zhuangzi 58
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 5
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 43
- Analects 4.5
- Analects 8.21
- Analects 9.11
- Analects 11.4
- Art of War 13.7
- Art of War 13.8
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.