间 · jiān
midpoint, space; place, locality
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
midpoint, space; place, locality
- Mandarin
- jiān
- Cantonese
- gaan1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+95F4
- Radical
- 门 · 169
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 间
Character connections
Sentence context · 1 matches
他们之间隔着很远的距离。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #876558 · Original contributor: eastasiastudent · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #876559 · Original contributor: eastasiastudent · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: AlanF_US
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
間
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- jiān
- kCantonese
- gaan1
- kDefinition
- midpoint, space; place, locality
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 169'.4
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+9593
- kTGH
- 2013:847
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jiān 0547.010 · jiàn 0554.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jiān 163.030 · jiàn 165.060
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- jiān(2080) jian(37) jiàn(15)