间jiān
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间
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Shuowen
间. The character combines 門 (door) and 月 (moon), depicting moonlight shining through the gap in a door, representing an opening or space between. The original meaning is "interval" or "gap," derived from the visual of light passing through the doorway, which extended to mean "room," "between," and "among."
Pinyin
jiān· HSK 1