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; Mathews 1931 '間', p. 114; 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; Kroll 2015 '間' 1, p. 196; Mathews 1931 '間', p. 114; 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; Kroll 2015 '間' 1a, p. 196; Mathews 1931 '間', p. 114) -
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; Kroll 2015 '間' 2, p. 196; 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; Kroll 2015 '間' jiàn 4, p. 196; Mathews 1931 '間', p. 114; NCCED jiàn '间' 2) -
jiàn
verb
to sow discord; to criticize
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; Kroll 2015 '間' jiàn 3, p. 196; Mathews 1931 '間', p. 114; 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; intermediate
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; Kroll 2015 '間' jiàn 1, p. 196) -
jiàn
verb
to make as a pretext
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '間' jiàn 2, p. 196) -
jiàn
verb
alternately
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '間' jiàn 5, p. 196) -
jiàn
verb
for friends to part
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Mathews 1931 '間', p. 114) -
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; Kroll 2015 '間' 3, p. 196) -
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; Kroll 2015 '間' jiàn 2b, p. 196) -
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; secretly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 私下 (Guoyu '間' jiàn adv 2; Kroll 2015 '間' jiàn 2a, p. 196)
Contained in
- 空间局(空間局) a space agency
- 四维空间(四維空間) four-dimensional space
- 打发时间(打發時間) to pass the time
- 短时间(短時間) short term; short time
- 一霎间(一霎間) in a flash
- 中间人(中間人) intermediary; mediator
- 仿射子空间(仿射子空間) affine subspace
- 霎时间(霎時間) in a split second
- 间苗(間苗) thinning out seedlings
- 徘徊于桂椒之间(徘徊於桂椒之間) it wanders among the osmanthus and pepper-trees
- 冥间(冥間) the Nether World; Hades
- 营业时间(營業時間) time of business; opening hours (of shop); working time
- 人间(人間) the human world; the world
- 间使(間使) secret envoy; acupuncture point Pc-5
- 包间(包間) private room (in a restaurant, or for karaoke etc); parlor; booth; compartment
- 第一时间(第一時間) in the first moments (of something happening); immediately (after an event); first thing
- 瞬息之间(瞬息之間) in the wink of an eye; in a flash
- 轨道空间站(軌道空間站) orbiting space station
- 国际民间组织(國際民間組織) international humanitarian organization
- 间接宾语(間接賓語) an indirect object
- 间接(間接) indirect
- 阳间(陽間) the world of the living
- 网络空间(網絡空間) cyberspace
- 空间探测(空間探測) space probe
- 楼梯间(樓梯間) staircase; flight of stairs
- 试验间(試驗間) test room
- 时间进程(時間進程) time course
- 人间地狱(人間地獄) hell on earth; suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive; having an uncomfortable time
- 无意间(無意間) inadvertently; unintentionally
- 肋间肌(肋間肌) intercostal muscle (between ribs)
- 民间(民間) folk; civilian; community
- 灶间(灶間) kitchen
- 争取时间(爭取時間) to act with urgency; to buy time
- 格林威治标准时间(格林威治標準時間) Greenwich Mean Time / GMT
- 时间测定学(時間測定學) chronometry
- 间脑(間腦) diencephalon
- 公共空间(公共空間) public space; public place
- 修行在人间(修行在人間) practiced the cultivation in the human world
- 民间舞蹈(民間舞蹈) folk dance
- 间或(間或) occasionally; now and then
- 间接手段(間接手段) indirect method
- 载人轨道空间站(載人軌道空間站) manned orbiting space station
- 民间宗教(民間宗教) folk religion; popular religion
- 突然间(突然間) suddenly
- 按时间先后(按時間先後) chronological
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桑间濮上 、 区间车 、 中间语态 、 八节那间 、 间谍网 、 名间乡
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