閒

See also: 闲, 閑, 間, and 𫔮

閒 U+9592, 閒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9592 ← 閑 [U+9591] CJK Unified Ideographs 間 → [U+9593]

Translingual

Han character

閒 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓月 (ANB), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿵門月)

Derived characters

• 鐗, 㗴, 譋

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1332, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41248
• Dae Jaweon: page 1838, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4289, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9592

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 閑
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (閑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
閑	*ɡreːn
嫻	*ɡreːn
鷴	*ɡreːn

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 門 (“door”) + 月 (“moon”) – moonlight peeking through a door – interstice; space (original character of 間).

Etymology 1

trad.		閒/閑*
simp.		闲*
nonstandard simp.		𫔮

Karlgren (1957) and Baxter (1992) connect this word with 間 (OC *kreːn, “interstice time”).

Alternatively, Pulleyblank (1973) suggests that it is cognate with 暇 (OC *ɡraːs, “to be at leisure”).

Schuessler (2007) considers this unrelated to 間 (OC *kreːn, *kreːns), and instead proposes that this is borrowed from Tai languages, akin to Thai คร้าน (kráan, “lazy; indolent”). 懶 (OC *raːnʔ, “lazy”) may be a colloquial reflex of the same word (ibid.).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 閒

1. not busy; idle

   噇飽恰閒。 [Eastern Min, trad.]
   噇饱恰闲。 [Eastern Min, simp.]

   Chòng bā kák-èng. / [t͡sʰouŋ⁵³ pa³³ kʰaʔ²⁴⁻²¹ ɛiŋ⁵³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

   Have nothing else to do. / Don't you have nothing else to do? / Mind your own concerns/business.

2. vacant; unoccupied; unused
3. leisurely and carefree
4. trivial; unimportant
5. unrelated to one's proper business; extraneous; belonging to others
6. relaxed; peaceful; tranquil; calm
7. leisure; spare time; free time
8. (gambling) player (instead of banker)
9. a surname
10. (Hakka) Template:zh-alt form

Antonyms

• (not busy): 忙 (máng)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 閒 – see 間 (“among; between; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 間).

References

• “閒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Korean

Hanja

閒 • (han, gan) (hangeul 한, 간, revised han, gan, McCune–Reischauer han, kan, Yale han, kan)

1. leisure, idle
2. peaceful, tranquil, calm

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Vietnamese

Han character

閒: Hán Nôm readings: gian, nhàn, gián

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