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)
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- 内间(內間) indoors ; an insider spy; a mole
- 间或(間或) occasionally; now and then
- 晨间(晨間) morning
- 眉间轮(眉間輪) ājñā or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra
- 间关(間關) creaking sound of a cart ; a perilous journey ; awkward text
- 间苗(間苗) thinning out seedlings
- 茶点时间(茶點時間) tea break; tea and dimsun
- 作息时间(作息時間) daily schedule; daily routine
- 间接证据(間接證據) indirect testimony; circumstantial evidence
- 色彩空间(色彩空間) color space
- 花时间(花時間) to take up time; to spend time
- 参量空间(參量空間) moduli space ; parameter space
- 反间计(反間計) stratagem of sowing dissension
- 车间(車間) workshop
- 间入(間入) secretly enter
- 间间(間間) to be apart from
- 间接选举(間接選舉) indirect election
- 东部时间(東部時間) Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- 中间层(中間層) mesosphere
- 弘法在人间(弘法在人間) lectured in the world
- 间隔摄影(間隔攝影) time-lapse photography
- 去取之间(去取之間) undecided between taking and leaving
- 间人(間人) for friends to part
- 间充(間充) mesenchymal (tissue, in cell biology)
- 乡间(鄉間) in the country; rural; pastoral ; a local spy
- 切空间(切空間) space of sections
- 眉间(眉間) the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows
- 铸工车间(鑄工車間) foundry (workshop or factory)
- 电子空间(電子空間) cyberspace
- 抽时间(抽時間) to (try to) find the time to
- 一段时间(一段時間) a period of time
- 双人间(雙人間) double room (hotel)
- 用餐时间(用餐時間) meal times
- 仿射子空间(仿射子空間) affine subspace
- 灶间(灶間) kitchen
- 洗澡间(洗澡間) bathroom; restroom; shower room
- 居间(居間) positioned between (two parties); to mediate between
- 阳世间(陽世間) the world of the living
- 中间纤维(中間纖維) intermediate filament
- 间歇训练(間歇訓練) interval training
- 间接手段(間接手段) indirect method
- 间充质干细胞(間充質幹細胞) mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology)
- 半间不界(半間不界) shallow; not thorough; superficial
- 弯曲空间(彎曲空間) curved space
- 站房间(站房間) to stay in a room
- 拖延时间(拖延時間) to procrastinate; to stall for time; to filibuster
- 尘间(塵間) the mundane world
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