簡 (Kangxi radical 118,竹+12, 18 strokes,cangjie input竹日弓日 (HANA),four-corner8822₇,composition⿱𥫗間)

• 𥳑(Kangxi dictionary form)

• 㶕(𰝗)𡅉𪦴𣠰𤓃𫌙𨰝

• Kangxi Dictionary:not present, would followpage 901, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26520
• Dae Jaweon: page 1325, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3017, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7C21

Historical forms of the character簡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*kreːnʔ): semantic 竹 + phonetic 間(OC*ɡreːn)

Note similarities toBurmeseကျည်(kyany,“bamboo tube; cartridge”).

簡

1. bambooslip
2. letter;epistle
3. simple;uncomplicated
4. terse;succinct;pithy;concise;brief;to the point
5. tosimplify
6. totreatcoldly; togive thecold-shoulder; toneglect
7. toselect; tochoose; topick
8. asurname,Jian

• (letter):

• (simple):

• (terse):

• (to simplify):

• (to treat coldly):

• (to select):

• (antonym(s) of“simple”):繁 (fán)

Borrowed fromEnglishJane.

簡

1. a transliteration of the English femalegiven nameJane

• “簡”, in重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese),National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan),2021.
• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Jane 簡[英]”, in世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation,→ISBN,→OCLC, page1374.
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “简”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page210.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji,kyūjitai form𥳑)

1. awooden orbamboo slip for writing;letter(ふだ)^[1]
2. simple;uncomplicated;terse;brief;succinct
3. frugal
4. tochoose(えらぶ)

• Go-on:けん(ken)
• Kan-on:かん(kan,Jōyō)
• Kun:ふだ(fuda,簡)、えらぶ(erabu,簡ぶ)

FromMiddle Chinese簡 (MC keanX).

• (Tokyo)かん[káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

簡(かん)• (kan) -na (adnominal簡(かん)な(kanna),adverbial簡(かん)に(kanni))

1. brief;simple

簡(かん)• (kan) 

1. brevity;simplicity

• “^△簡”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese簡 (MC keanX). Recorded asMiddle Korean간〯(kǎn) (Yale:kǎn) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (simple; concise; etc.):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[ka̠n]
  • Phonetic hangul:[간]
• (in간이 (簡易,gani)):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[ka̠(ː)n]
  • Phonetic hangul:[간(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
• (letter; to select; etc.):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[ka̠(ː)n]
  • Phonetic hangul:[간(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

簡

簡 (eumhun대쪽간(daejjok gan))

1. hanja form^? of간(“simple;uncomplicated”)
2. hanja form^? of간(“concise;brief”)
3. hanja form^? of간(“letter;epistle”)
4. hanja form^? of간(“toselect; tochoose; topick”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

簡:Hán Nôm readings:giản,dẳng,dớn,giỡn,nhởn,dần,dẵng,giảm,giằn

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