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(*ㄐㄧㄢˋ [jian4] ).
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一間茅屋 a hut;
安得廣廈千萬間 O, that I could have ten thousand houses (to house the homeless!).
(1) A place or locality: 田間 the fields;
人間 among the living: 尚在人間 is still living;
世間 the world;
置之案間 put on the desk;
陽間 the world of the living;
陰間 the world of the dead.
(2) Midpoint: 中間（人） in the middle, middleman;
居間（調停） act as a go-between, as an intermediary.
(3) (*[jian4]) Space, opening: 間隙 [jian4xi4]↓;
間不容髮 by a hair's breadth;
乘間 take advantage of an opening.
(4) A duration of time: 時間 a period of time;
其間 in the interval;
夜間 during nighttime;
日間 during daytime;
晚間 in the evening or night;
晨間 in the morning;
少間 in a little while;
忽然之間 all of a sudden;
百年之間 in a person's lifetime, a century;
瞬間 in the twinkling of an eye.
離間，反間 to alienate one person from another;
間諜 [jian1die2]！.
(2) Find fault with: 禹吾無間然矣 I can't find any fault with Yu.
相間 alternate, -ly: 紅白相間 red and white intermingled.
間有 every now and then.
間然 by accident, infrequently, by chance.
2.間步 *[jian4bu4], v.i., go leisurely on foot (usu. 閒步 pr. [xian2]).
3.間出 *[jian4chu1], v.i., go out furtively.
4.間道 *[jian4dao4], n. & adv., (by) short cuts.
5.間諜 *[jian4die2], n., a spy, a secret agent.
6.間斷 *[jian4duan4], v.t. & adj., disconnect(ed), detach(ed), turn(ed) off.
7.間隔 *[jian4ge2], (1) v.t., set apart, partition, divide into compartments; (2) n., an interval of space or time.
8.間或 *[jian4huo4], adv., occasionally, now and then, sometimes.
9.間接 *[jian4jie1], adj. & adv., indirect(ly).
10.間
*[jian4kuo4], adj., (of friends) separated for a long time. 11.間色 *[jian4se4], adj., many-colored, variegated.
12.間歇 *[jian4xie1], adj., intermittent: 間歇熱 intermittent fever; 間歇性 by fits and starts.
13.間隙 *[jian4xi4], n., a cleft, a slit; a misunderstanding.