间 — Chinese character
间
jiān
between, among; midpoint; space, place, locality
- Pinyin
- jiān
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 门 日
- Formation
- ideographic — The sun 日 shining through a doorway 门
- Traditional
- 間
Common words with 间
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 之间 (之間) | zhī jiān | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间 (tán zhǐ zhī jiān)) |
| 期间 (期間) | qī jiān | period of time; time |
| 空间 (空間) | kōng jiān | space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway |
| 民间 (民間) | mín jiān | among the people; popular |
| 中间 (中間) | zhōng jiān | the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among |
| 房间 (房間) | fáng jiān | room; 间 (jiān) |
| 年间 (年間) | nián jiān | in the years of; during those years |
| 人间 (人間) | rén jiān | the human world; the earth |
| 瞬间 (瞬間) | shùn jiān | in an instant; in a flash |
| 间谍 (間諜) | jiàn dié | spy |
| 间接 (間接) | jiàn jiē | indirectly; indirect |
English words written with 间
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.