间

jiàn

Select an entry

This word has multiple dictionary entries. Choose the reading or usage you want to review.

jiàn gap; to separate 4 definitions jiān between; among 6 definitions

Definitions

1. gap
2. to separate
3. to thin out (seedlings)
4. to sow discontent

Example Sentences

1 shown

我們還有一點時 间 。

Source: Tatoeba.org

Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.

Words Containing 间

• 一瞬间 yī shùn jiān: split second
• 中间 zhōng jiān: the middle; the inside
• 之间 zhī jiān: (after a noun) between; among; amid
• 人间 rén jiān: the human world
• 其间 qí jiān: in between
• 夜间 yè jiān: nighttime
• 房间 fáng jiān: room
• 时间 shí jiān: time
• 时间表 shí jiān biǎo: schedule
• 晚间 wǎn jiān: evening
• 期间 qī jiān: period of time
• 民间 mín jiān: among the people
• 洗手间 xǐ shǒu jiān: toilet
• 瞬间 shùn jiān: in an instant
• 空间 kōng jiān: space
• 卫生间 wèi shēng jiān: bathroom
• 车间 chē jiān: workshop
• 间接 jiàn jiē: indirect
• 间断 jiàn duàn: disconnected
• 间谍 jiàn dié: spy
• 间隔 jiàn gé: gap
• 间隙 jiàn xì: interval
• 一夜之间 yī yè zhī jiān: (lit. and fig.) overnight
• 一时间 yī shí jiān: for a moment
• 一线之间 yī xiàn zhī jiān: a hair's breadth apart
• 一霎间 yī shà jiān: in a flash
• 三维空间 sān wéi kōng jiān: three-dimensional space
• 上下班时间 shàng xià bān shí jiān: rush hour
• 上升空间 shàng shēng kōng jiān: upside
• 上班时间 shàng bān shí jiān: working hours; office hours
• 不经意间 bù jīng yì jiān: without paying attention
• 不食人间烟火 bù shí rén jiān yān huǒ: lit. not eating the food of common mortals
• 世间 shì jiān: world
• 中间人 zhōng jiān rén: intermediary
• 中间件 zhōng jiān jiàn: middleware
• 中间名 zhōng jiān míng: middle name
• 中间商 zhōng jiān shāng: middleman
• 中间层 zhōng jiān céng: mesosphere
• 中间派 zhōng jiān pài: party of compromise
• 中间神经元 zhōng jiān shén jīng yuán: interneuron
• 中间纤维 zhōng jiān xiān wéi: intermediate filament
• 中间路线 zhōng jiān lù xiàn: middle road (in politics)
• 中间音 zhōng jiān yīn: (phonetics) medial
• 人世间 rén shì jiān: the secular world
• 人间佛教 rén jiān fó jiào: Humanistic Buddhism
• 人间喜剧 rén jiān xǐ jù: La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克[bā ěr zhā kè]
• 人间地狱 rén jiān dì yù: hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive
• 人间天堂 rén jiān tiān táng: heaven on Earth
• 人间蒸发 rén jiān zhēng fā: to vanish
• 任职期间 rèn zhí qī jiān: term of office
• 仿射子空间 fǎng shè zǐ kōng jiān: affine subspace (math.)
• 仿射空间 fǎng shè kōng jiān: affine space (math.)
• 企业间网路 qǐ yè jiān wǎng lù: extranet
• 伯仲之间 bó zhòng zhī jiān: almost on a par
• 位形空间 wèi xíng kōng jiān: configuration space (math.)
• 作息时间 zuò xī shí jiān: daily schedule
• 作息时间表 zuò xī shí jiān biǎo: daily schedule
• 信赖区间 xìn lài qū jiān: confidence interval (statistics)
• 俯仰之间 fǔ yǎng zhī jiān: in a flash
• 停尸间 tíng shī jiān: morgue
• 停机时间 tíng jī shí jiān: downtime (computer network, power plant etc)
• 两国之间 liǎng guó zhī jiān: bilateral
• 凡间 fán jiān: the secular world
• 切空间 qiē kōng jiān: space of sections (math.)
• 前段时间 qián duàn shí jiān: recently
• 包间 bāo jiān: private room (in a restaurant, or for karaoke etc)
• 北京时间 běi jīng shí jiān: Chinese Standard Time
• 区间 qū jiān: delimited area
• 区间车 qū jiān chē: train or bus traveling only part of its normal route
• 半间不界 bàn gān bù gà: shallow
• 去取之间 qù qǔ zhī jiān: undecided between taking and leaving
• 参量空间 cān liàng kōng jiān: moduli space (math.)
• 反应时间 fǎn yìng shí jiān: response time (technology)
• 反间 fǎn jiàn: to feed the enemy misinformation through their own spies
• 反间计 fǎn jiàn jì: stratagem of sowing dissension
• 反间谍 fǎn jiàn dié: counterintelligence
• 名间 míng jiān: Mingjian or Mingchien Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
• 名间乡 míng jiān xiāng: Mingjian or Mingchien Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
• 向量空间 xiàng liàng kōng jiān: vector space
• 单人间 dān rén jiān: single room (hotel)
• 单间差 dān jiān chā: single supplement (for a hotel room)
• 四维空间 sì wéi kōng jiān: four-dimensional space (math.)
• 国际民间组织 guó jì mín jiān zǔ zhī: international humanitarian organization
• 在诉讼期间 zài sù sòng qī jiān: pendente lite
• 在这期间 zài zhè qī jiān: during time
• 坊间 fāng jiān: street stalls
• 坊间传言 fāng jiān chuán yán: rumors
• 外层空间 wài céng kōng jiān: outer space
• 外间 wài jiān: outer room
• 夜间部 yè jiān bù: night school
• 大床间 dà chuáng jiān: see 大床房[dà chuáng fáng]
• 太平间 tài píng jiān: mortuary
• 套间 tào jiān: vestibule
• 子空间 zǐ kōng jiān: subspace (math.)
• 字里行间 zì lǐ háng jiān: between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning
• 安定时间 ān dìng shí jiān: settling time (control theory)
• 对称空间 duì chèn kōng jiān: symmetric space (math.)
• 少间 shǎo jiàn: soon
• 就寝时间 jiù qǐn shí jiān: bedtime
• 居间 jū jiān: positioned between (two parties)
• 工作时间 gōng zuò shí jiān: working hours
• 幕间 mù jiān: interval (between acts in theater)
• 年间 nián jiān: in the years of
• 坐标空间 zuò biāo kōng jiān: coordinate space
• 建立时间 jiàn lì shí jiān: setup time
• 弹指一挥间 tán zhǐ yī huī jiān: in a flash (idiom)
• 弹指之间 tán zhǐ zhī jiān: (idiom) in a flash; instantly
• 弯曲空间 wān qū kōng jiān: curved space
• 打发时间 dǎ fā shí jiān: to pass the time
• 抓紧时间 zhuā jǐn shí jiān: to snatch time
• 抽时间 chōu shí jiān: to (try to) find the time to
• 拓扑空间 tuò pū kōng jiān: topological space (math.)
• 拖延时间 tuō yán shí jiān: to procrastinate
• 持续时间 chí xù shí jiān: duration
• 按时间先后 àn shí jiān xiān hòu: chronological
• 挑拨离间 tiǎo bō lí jiàn: to sow dissension (idiom); to drive a wedge between
• 挨时间 ái shí jiān: to stall
• 既得期间 jì dé qī jiān: vesting period (in finance)
• 日间 rì jiān: daytime
• 时间不早了 shí jiān bù zǎo le: it's getting late; time's getting on
• 时间区间 shí jiān qū jiān: time interval
• 时间序列 shí jiān xù liè: time series (stats.)
• 时间戳 shí jiān chuō: timestamp
• 时间是把杀猪刀 shí jiān shì bǎ shā zhū dāo: lit. time is a butcher's knife
• 时间测定学 shí jiān cè dìng xué: chronometry
• 时间简史 shí jiān jiǎn shǐ: \A Brief History of Time\ by Stephen Hawking
• 时间线 shí jiān xiàn: timeline
• 时间轴 shí jiān zhóu: time axis
• 时间进程 shí jiān jìn chéng: time course
• 时间点 shí jiān diǎn: point in time
• 晨间 chén jiān: (of the) morning
• 未达一间 wèi dá yī jiàn: differing only slightly
• 东部时间 dōng bù shí jiān: Eastern Standard Time (EST)
• 格子间 gé zi jiān: cubicle
• 格林威治标准时间 gé lín wēi zhì biāo zhǔn shí jiān: Greenwich Mean Time
• 格林尼治标准时间 gé lín ní zhì biāo zhǔn shí jiān: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• 桑间濮上 sāng jiān pú shàng: Sangjian by the Pu River, a place in the ancient state of Wei known for wanton behavior
• 椎间盘 zhuī jiān pán: intervertebral disk
• 楼梯间 lóu tī jiān: staircase
• 标准间 biāo zhǔn jiān: standard (hotel) room
• 此间 cǐ jiān: here
• 民间传说 mín jiān chuán shuō: popular tradition
• 民间故事 mín jiān gù shi: folk story
• 民间组织 mín jiān zǔ zhī: association
• 民间习俗 mín jiān xí sú: folk customs
• 民间舞 mín jiān wǔ: folk dance
• 民间舞蹈 mín jiān wǔ dǎo: folk dance
• 民间艺术 mín jiān yì shù: folk art
• 民间音乐 mín jiān yīn yuè: folk music
• 河间市 hé jiān shì: Hejian, county-level city in Cangzhou 滄州|沧州[cāng zhōu], Hebei
• 洗涤间 xǐ dí jiān: washroom
• 洗澡间 xǐ zǎo jiān: bathroom
• 消磨时间 xiāo mó shí jiān: to kill time
• 减压时间表 jiǎn yā shí jiān biǎo: decompression schedule (diving)
• 潮间带 cháo jiān dài: intertidal zone
• 灶间 zào jiān: kitchen (dialect)
• 无意间 wú yì jiān: inadvertently
• 无间 wú jiàn: very close
• 无间地狱 wú jiàn dì yù: see 阿鼻地獄|阿鼻地狱[ā bí dì yù]
• 营业时间 yíng yè shí jiān: time of business
• 争取时间 zhēng qǔ shí jiān: to act with urgency
• 用间 yòng jiàn: using spies
• 用餐时间 yòng cān shí jiān: meal times
• 田间 tián jiān: field
• 田间管理 tián jiān guǎn lǐ: land management
• 当地时间 dāng dì shí jiān: local time
• 相空间 xiàng kōng jiān: phase space (math., ordinary differential equations)
• 相间 xiāng jiàn: to alternate
• 眉间 méi jiān: the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows
• 眉间轮 méi jiān lún: ājñā or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra 查克拉, residing in the forehead
• 众创空间 zhòng chuàng kōng jiān: hackerspace
• 瞬息之间 shùn xī zhī jiān: in the wink of an eye
• 瞬间转移 shùn jiān zhuǎn yí: teleportation
• 短时间 duǎn shí jiān: short term
• 空房间 kōng fáng jiān: vacant room
• 空气缓冲间 kōng qì huǎn chōng jiān: air lock
• 空间局 kōng jiān jú: space agency
• 空间探测 kōng jiān tàn cè: space exploration
• 空间探测器 kōng jiān tàn cè qì: space probe
• 空间站 kōng jiān zhàn: space station
• 突然间 tū rán jiān: suddenly
• 第一时间 dì yī shí jiān: in the first moments (of sth happening)
• 节间 jié jiān: between joints
• 网络空间 wǎng luò kōng jiān: cyberspace
• 线性空间 xiàn xìng kōng jiān: vector space
• 置信区间 zhì xìn qū jiān: confidence interval (math.)
• 美东时间 měi dōng shí jiān: USA Eastern Standard Time
• 肋间肌 lèi jiàn jī: intercostal muscle (between ribs)
• 胯间 kuà jiān: crotch; groin
• 腰椎间盘 yāo zhuī jiān pán: intervertebral disk
• 腰椎间盘突出 yāo zhuī jiān pán tū chū: slipped disk
• 腰椎间盘突出症 yāo zhuī jiān pán tū chū zhèng: herniated lumbar disk
• 腰间 yāo jiān: waist
• 与时间赛跑 yǔ shí jiān sài pǎo: to race against time
• 花时间 huā shí jiān: to take up time
• 行间 háng jiān: between rows
• 衣帽间 yī mào jiān: cloakroom
• 视空间系统 shì kōng jiān xì tǒng: visuo-spatial sketchpad
• 亲密无间 qīn mì wú jiān: close relation, no gap (idiom); intimate and nothing can come between
• 诊间 zhěn jiān: examination room (in a doctor's office)