Jisho

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間

12 strokes
Radical:
gate 門
Parts:
日 門
Variants:
interval, space
Kun:
あいだ、 ま、 あい
On:
カン、 ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
33 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 間 【カン】 interval, period of time, among, between, inter-, good opportunity, chance, estrangement, discord, alienation, spy, secret agent
  • 間隔 【カンカク】 space, interval, space character, whitespace
  • 短期間 【タンキカン】 short term, short time
  • 右中間 【ウチュウカン】 between right and center fielders (centre)
  • 間 【ケン】 ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m), counter used to number the gaps between pillars
  • 間数 【ケンスウ】 number of ken (in length or breadth)
  • 世間 【セケン】 world, society, people, the public
  • 六百間 【ロッピャッケン】 roppyakken (type of game)

Kun reading compounds

  • 間 【あいだ】 space (between), gap, interval, distance, stretch, period of time (during, while), duration, interval, between (two parties or things), among (a group), relations (between), relationship, midpoint, average, halfway, middle ground, due to, because of
  • 間中 【あいだじゅう】 during
  • 候間 【そうろうあいだ】 as ...
  • ついこの間 【ついこのあいだ】 just the other day, quite recently
  • 間 【ま】 time, pause, space, room
  • 間際 【まぎわ】 the point just before ..., the point of (doing), the verge (of), the eve (of), (just before the) edge
  • 茶の間 【ちゃのま】 (Japanese-style) living room
  • 床の間 【とこのま】 tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)
  • 間 【あいだ】 space (between), gap, interval, distance, stretch, period of time (during, while), duration, interval, between (two parties or things), among (a group), relations (between), relationship, midpoint, average, halfway, middle ground, due to, because of
  • 間中 【あいだじゅう】 during
  • 波間 【なみま】 interval between the waves, gap between waves
  • 幕間 【まくあい】 intermission (between acts), interlude

Readings

Japanese names:
ちか、 は、 はざ、 はし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian1, jian4
Korean:
gan

Spanish

  • intervalo
  • espacio
  • habitación

Portuguese

  • intervalo
  • espaço

French

  • intervalle
  • espace
58 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
100 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
92 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
27 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4949 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
174 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
96 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1822 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.7 Japanese for Busy People
43 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
43 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
161 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1841 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4122 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2094 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2836 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1634 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41249 Morohashi
3323 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6391 New Nelson (John Haig)
1620 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1747 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
31 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
215 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3878 2001 Kanji
8e4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-8-4 SKIP code
7760.7 Four corner code
1-20-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9593 Unicode hex code

抜

7 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
亠 又 夂 扎
Variants:
拔
slip out, extract, pull out, pilfer, quote, remove, omit
Kun:
ぬ.く、 -ぬ.く、 ぬ.き、 ぬ.ける、 ぬ.かす、 ぬ.かる
On:
バツ、 ハツ、 ハイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
726 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 抜群 【バツグン】 outstanding, excellent, exceptional, distinguished, unrivaled, surpassing (e.g. beauty), beyond compare
  • 抜山蓋世 【バツザンガイセイ】 great strength and energy (of a mighty hero), Herculean strength and vitality
  • 卓抜 【タクバツ】 excellence, superiority, preeminence, prevalence
  • 警抜 【ケイバツ】 scintillating, extraordinarily excellent

Kun reading compounds

  • 抜く 【ぬく】 to pull out, to draw out, to extract, to unplug, to weed, to omit, to leave out, to go without, to skip, to do to the end, to do thoroughly, to do completely, to do severely, to let out (e.g. air from a tyre), to drain (e.g. water from a bath), to empty, to pick out, to choose, to select, to extract, to pilfer, to steal, to remove, to get rid of, to take out, to pass, to overtake, to outstrip, to get ahead of, to pierce, to break through, to go through, to cut out (a shape), to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area, to seize, to capture, to reduce, to scoop (a story), to take out (an opponent's stones; in go), to masturbate (of a male), to ejaculate (while masturbating), to take (a photo), to record (video)
  • 抜くべからざる 【ぬくべからざる】 deep-rooted (suspicion, etc.)
  • 抜き 【ぬき】 leaving out, omitting, skipping, dispensing with, (beating) in succession, in a row
  • 抜き打ち 【ぬきうち】 drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke, doing (something) suddenly and without warning, doing without prior notice
  • 手抜き 【てぬき】 omitting crucial steps, cutting corners, skimping, intentional negligence, tenuki, making a move which is not a direct counter to one's opponent's last move
  • 栓抜き 【せんぬき】 bottle opener, corkscrew
  • 抜ける 【ぬける】 to come out, to fall out, to be omitted, to be missing, to escape, to come loose, to fade, to discolour, to wear a hole (e.g. clothes), to leave (e.g. a meeting), to be clear, to be transparent (e.g. of the sky), to be absentminded, to be careless, to be inattentive, to be foolish, to exit (a program loop), to go through, to pass through, to give way, to collapse, to finish a round with more than 88 points (not counting points gained from scoring combinations)
  • 抜けるような青空 【ぬけるようなあおぞら】 deep blue sky, bottomless blue sky
  • 抜かす 【ぬかす】 to omit, to leave out, to skip, to overtake, to pass, to say, to speak
  • 抜かる 【ぬかる】 to make a mistake

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ba2
Korean:
bal, pae

Spanish

  • omitir
  • echar
  • extraer
  • tirar
  • quitar
  • sacar

Portuguese

  • deslizar
  • extrato
  • arrancar
  • furtar
  • citação
  • remover
  • omitir

French

  • arracher
  • extraire
  • chaparder
  • enlever
  • omettre
  • faire une erreur
1708 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
684 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1854 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1525 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
561 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
384 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1713 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1830 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
769 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
864 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
290 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
183 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
219 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
712 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11901P Morohashi
246 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2093 New Nelson (John Haig)
705 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
761 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1129 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1367 2001 Kanji
3c4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
5404.7 Four corner code
1-40-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
629c Unicode hex code