簡

See also: 简
簡 U+7C21, 簡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C21
← 簠
[U+7C20] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 簢 →
[U+7C22]

Translingual

Han character

簡 (radical 118, 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹日弓日 (HANA), four-corner 88227, composition ⿱⺮間)

  • 𥳑 (Kangxi dictionary form)

Derived characters
  • 𨰝

References
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 901, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26520
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1325, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3017, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+7C21

Chinese
trad. 簡
simp. 简
variant forms 𥳑
𫈉 second round simplified

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (閒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
間 *kreːn, *kreːns
簡 *kreːnʔ
澗 *kreːns, *kraːns
鐧 *kreːns, *kraːns
蕑 *kreːn
覵 *kreːn, *kreːns, *pkrenʔ
襉 *kreːnʔ, *kreːns
僩 *kreːnʔ, *ɡraːnʔ
鬜 *kʰreːn, *kʰraːn, *kʰreːd
癇 *ɡreːn
瞯 *ɡreːn
憪 *ɡreːn, *ɡraːnʔ
橌 *ɡraːnʔ
撊 *ɡraːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kreːnʔ) : semantic 竹 + phonetic 間 (OC *ɡreːn)

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 簡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古限切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚænX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨnX/
Li
Rong		 /kɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /kænX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kănX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǎn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 簡 簡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǎn jiǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛnX › ‹ kɛnX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˁre[n]ʔ/ /*kˁre[n]ʔ/
English bamboo slip for writing select, large-minded, etc.

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 簡
Reading # 1/1
No. 6227
Phonetic
component		 閒
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 簡
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːnʔ/

Definitions

簡

  1. bamboo slip
  2. letter
  3. simple; uncomplicated
  4. terse; succinct
  5. to simplify
  6. to select

Compounds
Derived terms from 簡

Japanese

Kanji
簡

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. simple
  2. terse, brief, succinct

Readings

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
簡
かん
Grade: 6
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 簡 (MC kˠɛnX).

Pronunciation

Adjective

簡 (-na inflection, hiragana かん, rōmaji kan)

  1. brief; simple
Inflection
Inflection of 簡
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 簡だろ かんだろ kan daro
Continuative (連用形) 簡で かんで kan de
Terminal (終止形) 簡だ かんだ kan da
Attributive (連体形) 簡な かんな kan na
Hypothetical (仮定形) 簡なら かんなら kan nara
Imperative (命令形) 簡であれ かんであれ kan de are
Key constructions
Informal negative 簡ではない
簡じゃない		 かんではない
かんじゃない		 kan de wa nai
kan ja nai
Informal past 簡だった かんだった kan datta
Informal negative past 簡ではなかった
簡じゃなかった		 かんではなかった
かんじゃなかった		 kan de wa nakatta
kan ja nakatta
Formal 簡です かんです kan desu
Formal negative 簡ではありません
簡じゃありません		 かんではありません
かんじゃありません		 kan de wa arimasen
kan ja arimasen
Formal past 簡でした かんでした kan deshita
Formal negative past 簡ではありませんでした
簡じゃありませんでした		 かんではありませんでした
かんじゃありませんでした		 kan de wa arimasen deshita
kan ja arimasen deshita
Conjunctive 簡で かんで kan de
Conditional 簡なら（ば） かんなら（ば） kan nara (ba)
Provisional 簡だったら かんだったら kan dattara
Volitional 簡だろう かんだろう kan darō
Adverbial 簡に かんに kan ni
Degree 簡さ かんさ kansa

Noun

簡 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan)

  1. brevity; simplicity

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
簡
ふだ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 簡 – see ふだ.
(This term, 簡, is a kanji spelling of ふだ.)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

簡 • (gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune–Reischauer kan, Yale kan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

簡 (giản, dẳng, dớn, giỡn, nhởn, dần, dẵng, giảm, giằn)

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