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CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.crack
  2. 2.crevice
  3. 3.gap or interval
  4. 4.loophole
  5. 5.discord
  6. 6.rift

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.crack; crevice; gap
  2. 2.free time; spare time
  3. 3.opportunity (to take advantage of)
  4. 4.enmity; resentment; grudge

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Etymology

Possibly related to 間 (OC *kreːn, *kreːns, “space, gap”) (Wang, 1982). Outside of Chinese, compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *kak (“to crack; to rend; to split”), Jingpho [script needed] (kaʔ³¹, “to crack”) (Sagart, 2017).

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Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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