闲
閒Meanings
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- 1.idle
- 2.unoccupied
- 3.leisure
- 1.variant of 间[jiān]
- 1.variant of 间[jiàn]
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Wiktionary
- 1.not busy; idle
- 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.player (instead of banker)
- 9.a surname
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 門 (“door”) + 月 (“moon”) – moonlight peeking through a door – interstice; space (original character of 間). 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.).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我沒想多管閒事。
I didn't mean to meddle.
我沒想多管閒事。
I didn't mean to be nosy.
我可沒有那閒空。
I don't have that kind of time.
告訴他別多管閒事。
Tell him to mind his own business.
你上週末跟誰閒逛了？
Who did you hang out with last weekend?
別閒聊了，開始工作。
Cut the chit-chat and get to work.
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Antonyms
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