間“interval” Kanjiaida / kan
How to write 間
Stroke order diagram for the kanji 間
Meaning and readings
Meaning
interval, space
Onyomi (音読み)
- かん kan
- けん ken
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- あいだ aida
- ま ma
- あい ai
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
トムとの間に何かあったの?
Did something happen between you and Tom?
間 (ま)

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