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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)

平壌時間ピョンヤンじかん

Pyongyang Time

歯間ブラシしかんブラシ

interdental brush

時間停止じかんていし

stopping of time (in fiction)

time to oneself

time difference

time to oneself

dialing the wrong number

demi-human

many years

space lattice

interstellar travel

space-time

reaction time

middleman

Arbor Week

taking time off by the hour (e.g. for medical appointments or childcare)

黒人歴史月間こくじんれきしげっかん

Black History Month

間助かんじょ

interjectory particle (e.g. "yo", "ne", "sa")

条間じょうかん

inter-row space

民間情報教育局みんかんじょうほうきょういくきょく

Civil Information and Education Section (of the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Japan; 1945-1952)

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