间 (間) jiān
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jiān
measure word measure word for rooms, houses, luggage, etc
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (ABC 'jiān' 间 m; Guoyu '間' jiān n 4; NCCED '间' 4) -
jiān
noun
space between
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 空间 (ABC 'jiān' 间 bf 2; Guoyu '間' jiān n 1; NCCED '间' 1; Unihan '間') -
jiān
preposition
between / among
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: May be classified as a localizer because it can be appended to some nouns as a suffix to indicate location (ABC 'jiān' 间 bf 4). -
jiān
noun
time interval
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 时间 (ABC 'jiān' 间 bf 3; Guoyu '間' jiān n 3; NCCED '间' 2) -
jiān
noun
a room
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 房间 (ABC 'jiān' 间 bf 1; NCCED '间' 3) -
jiàn
verb
to thin out
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'jiàn' 间 v; NCCED jiàn '间' 4) -
jiàn
verb
to separate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 分隔 or 分开 (ABC 'jiàn' 间 bf 1; Guoyu '間' jiàn v 2; NCCED jiàn '间' 2) -
jiàn
verb
to sow discord
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 挑拨; for example, 反间 'to sow discord in the enemy' (ABC 'jiàn' 间 bf 2; Guoyu '間' jiàn v 2; NCCED jiàn '间' 3) -
jiàn
noun
an opening / a gap
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 空隙 (ABC 'jiàn' 间 bf 3; Guoyu '間' jiàn n 1; NCCED jiàn '间' 1) -
jiàn
noun
a leak / a crevice
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'jiàn' 间 bf 4) -
jiàn
verb
to mix / to mingle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 更替 or 夹杂 (ABC 'jiàn' 间 bf 5; Guoyu '間' jiàn v 1) -
jiān
noun
a place / a space
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 处所 or 地方; for example, 田间 'field' or 阴间 'netherworld' (Guoyu '間' jiān n 2) -
jiàn
noun
a spy / a treacherous person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 奸细 (Guoyu '間' jiàn n 2) -
jiàn
adverb
occasionally
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 偶尔 (Guoyu '間' jiàn adv 1) -
jiàn
adverb
in private
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 私下 (Guoyu '間' jiàn adv 2)
Contained in
- 人间(人間) the human world / the world
- 眉间(眉間) the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows
- 空间(空間) space
- 间质(間質) mesenchyme (physiology)
- 卫生间(衛生間) bathroom / toilet
- 轨道空间站(軌道空間站) orbiting space station
- 一段时间(一段時間) a period of time
- 度量空间(度量空間) a metric space
- 高维空间(高維空間) higher dimensional space
- 凡间(凡間) the secular world
- 一霎间(一霎間) in a flash
- 试验间(試驗間) test room
- 建立时间(建立時間) setup time / settling time
- 对称空间(對稱空間) symmetric space
- 间使(間使) secret envoy / acupuncture point Pc-5
- 格林尼治标准时间(格林尼治標準時間) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- 在这期间(在這期間) during time / in this time
- 间隙(間隙) a gap / a crack / an interval
- 无意间(無意間) inadvertently / unintentionally
- 时间轴(時間軸) time axis / timeline
- 减压时间表(減壓時間表) decompression schedule (diving)
- 腰椎间盘突出症(腰椎間盤突出症) herniated lumbar disk
- 参量空间(參量空間) moduli space / parameter space
- 时间表(時間表) schedule / timetable
- 时间序列(時間序列) time series (stats.)
- 单人间(單人間) single room (hotel)
- 双人间(雙人間) double room (hotel)
- 区间(區間) interval
- 此间(此間) here / this place
- 标间(標間) Abbreviation for 標準間|标准间, standard (hotel) room
- 电子空间(電子空間) cyberspace
- 超维空间(超維空間) hyperspace / superspace / higher dimensional space
- 北京时间(北京時間) Chinese Standard Time
- 四维空间(四維空間) four-dimensional space
- 办公时间(辦公時間) office hours
- 反间(反間) to sow discord in the enemy
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民间社会 、 三世间 、 人间性 、 民间故事 、 五无间业 、 时间区间 、 世间经 、 民间艺术 、 知世间 、 人我之间 、 冢间住 、 众生世间 、 时间无间 、 世间法 、 间谍网
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