间

間traditional

HSK 2#497 by frequencyradical 门

jiān["q","f","v","g"]

room; classifier for rooms; between; among; within a definite time or space; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars

jiàn

gap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent

Examples

时间到了。

Time's up.

你的房间很大。

Your room is big.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.