簡

See also 简

Translingual

Han character

簡 (radical 118 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹日弓日 (HANA), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱⺮間)

1. simple, terse, succinct
2. letter

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 901, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26520
• Dae Jaweon: page 1325, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3017, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7C21

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Cantonese

Hanzi

簡 (simplified 简, Yale gaan2)

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Japanese

Kanji

簡 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: ふだ (fuda), えらぶ (erabu)

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Korean

Hanja

簡 (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan, Yale kan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

簡 (simplified 简, pinyin jiǎn (jian3), Wade-Giles chien³)

Compounds

• 簡單
• 簡稱

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Vietnamese

Han character

簡 (giản, dẳng, dớn, giỡn, nhởn, dần, dẵng, giảm, giằn)