間
jiānjiàngān HSK1

space

间 間 jiān frequency
within locative
(bound form) within a certain space or time; area; domain

我能感觉到风在我手指间滑动。

wǒ néng gǎn​jué dào fēng zài wǒ shǒu​zhǐ jiān huá​dòng.

I could feel the wind sliding between my fingers.

我们不应该让时间从手指间溜走。

wǒ​men bù yīng​gāi ràng shí​jiān cóng shǒu​zhǐ jiān liū​zǒu.

We should not let time slip through our fingers.

room nounlocative
(bound form) room; section of a building; workshop

这里就是游戏间。

zhè​lǐ jiù​shì yóu​xì jiān.

This is the game room.

between locative
between; among; in the middle of two things or times

把头放在双膝间。

bǎ tóu fàng zài shuāng​xī jiān.

Put your head between your knees.

[room] measure word
measure word for rooms and buildings

这里只有一间店。

zhè​lǐ zhǐ​yǒu yī jiān diàn.

There's only one shop here.

酒店拥有55间美丽的房间。

jiǔ​diàn yōng​yǒu55 jiān měi​lì de fáng​jiān.

The hotel has 55 beautiful rooms.

surname
a Chinese surname
间 間 jiàn
spy noun
a spy; secret agent
gap noun
(bound form) gap; opening; crevice; space in between
to separate adverbnoun
to separate; to partition; to space out
alternately adjectivenoun
alternately; mixed; in between; sporadically; occasionally
to sow discord
to cause a rift; to sow discontent among people; to alienate
to thin out
to thin out seedlings
间 間 gān
[idiom]
used in the idiom 半间不界 bàn​gān​bù​gà, meaning halfway; neither one thing nor the other

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Frequency
Character
Written text
135th most common 1510.2 per million
Movie subtitles
141st most common 1281.9 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
165.3 per million appears in 46% of films
Written text
237.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Simplified
间
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+9593

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)