簡

See also: 简
簡 U+7C21, 簡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C21
← 簠
[U+7C20] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 簢 →
[U+7C22]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 𨰝

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

Chinese

trad. 簡
simp. 简
alt. forms 𫈉 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (閒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
間 *kreːn, *kreːns
簡 *kreːnʔ
澗 *kreːns, *kraːns
鐧 *kreːns, *kraːns
蕑 *kreːn
覵 *kreːn, *kreːns, *pkrenʔ
襉 *kreːnʔ, *kreːns
僩 *kreːnʔ, *ɡraːnʔ
鬜 *kʰreːn, *kʰraːn, *kʰreːd
癇 *ɡreːn
瞯 *ɡreːn
憪 *ɡreːn, *ɡraːnʔ
橌 *ɡraːnʔ
撊 *ɡraːnʔ

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 簡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古限切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚænX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨnX/
Li
Rong		 /kɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /kænX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kănX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǎn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 簡 簡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǎn jiǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛnX › ‹ kɛnX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤre[n]ʔ/ /*kˤre[n]ʔ/
English bamboo slip for writing select, large-minded, etc.

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 簡
Reading # 1/1
No. 6227
Phonetic
component		 閒
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 簡
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːnʔ/

Definitions

簡

  1. simple; uncomplicated
  2. terse; succinct
  3. letter

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

簡

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. simple
  2. terse, brief, succinct

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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