間

See also: 间, 閒, and 閑
間 U+9593, 間
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9593
← 閒
[U+9592] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 閔 →
[U+9594]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

間 (radical 169, 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓日 (ANA), four-corner 77607, composition ⿵門日)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 1333, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41249
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1839, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4288, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9593

Chinese
trad. 間
simp. 间
variant forms 閒

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 間
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 門 (“door”) + 日 (“sun”). Originally 閒, moonlight peeking through a door – interstice; space.

Etymology

The two pronunciations are related, with Pronunciation 2 being the exoactive of Pronunciation 1.

Related to:

  • 隙 (OC *kʰraɡ, “crack; chink”), 澗 (OC *kreːns, *kraːns, “ravine; brook (between mountains)”) (Wang, 1982);
  • 閒 (OC *ɡreːn, “lazy; leisure”) (Karlgren, 1957; Baxter, 1992).

Externally, likely related to Mizo kâr (“space between; interval”), Burmese ကြား (kra:, “in-between; interval; interim”), အကြား (a.kra:, “gap; break”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1
Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taiwan:
    • keng/kuiⁿ/kaiⁿ - vernacular (“room, classifier”);
    • kan - literary.
Note:
  • goin1/gain1 - vernacular (“room, classifier”) (gain1 - Jieyang, Chaoyang);
  • gang1 - literary.
Note:
  • 1ke - vernacular;
  • 1ji - literary.
Rime
Character 間
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古閑切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨn/
Li
Rong		 /kɛn/
Wang
Li		 /kæn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 間
Reading # 1/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛn ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˁre[n]/
English interval

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 間
Reading # 1/2
No. 6226
Phonetic
component		 閒
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 閒
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːn/
Notes 原作閒同說文

Definitions

間

  1. within a definite time period or place
  2. among; between
  3. a moment; a little while; instant
  4. room; chamber
  5. section of a room; lateral space between two pairs of pillars
  6. Classifier for smallest units of housing, such as rooms and shopfronts.
  7. (chiefly Cantonese) Classifier for buildings in general, including schools, banks, cinemas, hospitals, shops, factories.
  8. A surname​.

Compounds
Derived terms from 間

Pronunciation 2
Note: gain3 - Jieyang, Chaoyang.
Rime
Character 間
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古莧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨnH/
Li
Rong		 /kɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /kænH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 間
Reading # 2/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛn ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˁre[n]/
English 間關 sound of a chariot"s linchpin (Ode 218.1)

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 間
Reading # 2/2
No. 6228
Phonetic
component		 閒
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 襇
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːns/
Notes 閒後起字體

Definitions

間

  1. opening; gap; break
  2. estrangement; alienation; hostility
  3. spy; secret agent
  4. to keep away from; to keep apart
  5. to separate; to partition
  6. to alternate; to do something alternately
  7. to be mixed up with; to be intermingled
  8. to sow discord
  9. to blame; to reproach
  10. intermittently; sometimes
  11. in secret; clandestinely

Compounds
Derived terms from 間

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

間

  1. † Variant pronunciation of the classifier sense.
  2. † Used in place names.

Further reading

Japanese
Ryakuji for 間, based on ryakuji for 門; compare also 開.

Kanji
間

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

References
  • New Nelson: 6391
  • Halpern: 3323
  • Halpern Learners: 2094
  • Heisig: 1620
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 8e4.3
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
間
あいだ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 間 – see the following entry at あいだ.
あいだ【間】
[noun]a space
[noun]a while; an interval; (when followed by に) meanwhile
[noun]between
[noun]during
(This term, 間, is a kanji spelling of あいだ.)

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
間
ま
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 間 – see the following entry at ま.
ま【間】
[noun]space; room
(This term, 間, is a kanji spelling of ま.)

Etymology 3
Kanji in this term
間
あい
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 間 – see the following entry at あい.
あい【間】
[noun](literary or dialectal) interval of time or space; time; during; between; leisure
[noun]relation; relationship; terms (between people)
[noun]Short for 間狂言 (aikyōgen).
[noun]Short for 間駒 (aigoma).
[noun]Short for 間の手 (ai no te).
(This term, 間, is a kanji spelling of あい.)

Etymology 4
Kanji in this term
間
かん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 間 (kɛn, “interval”).

Pronunciation

Noun

間 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan)

  1. interval

Suffix

間 (hiragana かん, rōmaji -kan)

  1. suffixes some expressions of time to tell duration rather than time or date
    二 (に)時 (じ)
    ni-ji
    two (o'clock)
    二 (に)時 (じ)間 (かん)
    ni-jikan
    two hours
    二 (に)時 (じ)五 (ご)分 (ふん)
    ni-ji go-fun
    five past two
    五 (ご)分 (ふん)(間 (かん))
    go-fun(kan)
    five minutes
    二 (ふつ)日 (か)
    futsuka
    the 2nd (day of the month)
    二 (ふつ)日 (か)(間 (かん))
    futsuka(kan)
    two days

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

間 (eumhun 사이 간 (sai gan))

  1. Hanja form? of 간 (“between”).

Vietnamese

Han character

間: Hán Nôm readings: gian, dán, gián

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References
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