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間

JLPT N5 SL2 12 strokes Frequency: #23

Meanings

interval, space

Radicals

門

Decomposition

⿵門日

Etymology

Ideographic: The sun 日 shining through a doorway 門

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

2 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical right-to-left

6 hook right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

10 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

11 horizontal bottom-to-top

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

カン kan

Used in compound words

ケン ken

Alternative reading

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

あいだ aida

Between

ま ma

Space, room

あい ai

Words Using This Kanji

1168 words total

Other (20 words)

惑星間物質わくせいかんぶっしつ

interplanetary matter

companions

test period

reception hours

tunnel

interstitial pneumonia

おうち時間おうちじかん

time spent at home (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic)

時間管理じかんかんり

time management

お茶の間おちゃのま

(Japanese-style) living room

中間部ちゅうかんぶ

middle section (of a composition in ternary form)

me-time

drying time

indirect democracy

doubling time

midnight

Okinawan time (i.e. a relaxed attitude to punctuality sometimes ascribed to Okinawans)

annual income

human cannonball

travelling incognito

travelling incognito

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