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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *間* | 間* | *間
between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms
HSK 1
HSK 1
(concept of) time / (duration of) time / (point in) time
HSK 1
the middle; the inside / in the middle; within; between; among / during; in the meantime
HSK 1
toilet / lavatory / washroom
HSK 1
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
bathroom / toilet / WC / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
(after a noun) between; among; amid / (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间)
HSK 4
space; room / (fig.) scope; leeway / (astronomy) outer space / (physics, math.) space
HSK 4
period of time / time / time period / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
indirect
HSK 5
nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes)
HSK 5
the human world / the earth
HSK 5
evening / night
HSK 7-9
split second
HSK 7-9
gap / interval / compartment / to divide / to separate / to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)
HSK 7-9
schedule / timetable
HSK 7-9
spy
HSK 7-9
in an instant; in a flash
HSK 7-9
workshop / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
in between / within that interval / in the meantime
HSK 7-9
interval / gap / clearance
HSK 7-9
disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break
HSK 7-9
USA Eastern Standard Time
mortuary / morgue
manned orbiting space station
stratagem of sowing dissension / CL: 條|条
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
coordinate space
(of the) morning
examination room (in a doctor's office)
La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克
staircase / flight of stairs
curved space
random period of time / random interval
working hours; office hours
to be in a hurry
business hours; opening hours; office hours
(math.) subspace
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *間* | 間* | *間
gap / to separate / to thin out (seedlings) / to sow discontent
differing only slightly / not much between them
delimited area / defined section of a train or bus route / numerical range / (math.) interval
very close / no gap between them / continuously / unbroken / hard to separate / indistinguishable
for a moment / momentarily
the world of the living
Humanistic Buddhism
daytime
world / earth
(to escape danger etc) by a hair's breadth (idiom) / in a critical state / on the brink of crisis / very close (to happening) / Taiwan pr. [jian4 bu4 rong2 fa3]
to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence
inadvertently / unintentionally
compartment / booth / cubicle / partitioned-off area
folk dance
gap; spacing; distance between objects; interval between events
indirect object (grammar)
kitchen (dialect) / CL: 間|间
intervertebral disk
the nether world / Hades / (neologism) (slang) disturbing / unsettling / awful / detestable
middle road (in politics)
train or bus traveling only part of its normal route
in the country / rural / pastoral
the secular world
in a split second
field / farm / farming area / village
here / this place
the secular world
folk story / folktale
fitting room
cloakroom
daily schedule / daily routine
intermediary / mediator
(idiom) in the wink of an eye; in a flash
to sow dissension (idiom); to drive a wedge between
counterintelligence / protection against espionage
(idiom) in the wink of an eye; in a flash
between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning / connotations
interval between lessons
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life
middleman / broker
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time
unit for the width of a room, equal to the standard width of a room in an old-style house – about 10 chi / width of a room / (architecture) bay
almost on a par
cyberspace
land management
setting-up exercises during the break (between classes)
moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
three-dimensional space / 3D
(idiom) in a flash; instantly
(Tw) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
morgue
thinning out seedlings
street stalls / bookshops / in the streets
spy network
diencephalon
indirect testimony / circumstantial evidence
popular tradition / folk legend
Hejian, county-level city in Cangzhou 滄州市|沧州市, Hebei
(Tw) evening program (at a college) / night school
vestibule / small inner room (opening to others) / suite / apartment

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