Memory phrase for the character: 簡


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Meaning

simple, easy, brief

Pronunciation

KAN

Explanation

Top: bamboo 竹, below: space, gap 間 (At the gate 門, the sun 日 shines through to the space/gap.)

Mnemonic


 
If you build using bamboo with gaps, you make it yourself very easy.

Radicals

bamboo
gateThe radical mon is the picture of a gate.




 Vocabulary

簡単 かんたん  simple
簡易 かんい  simplicity, easiness, quasi-
簡潔 かんけつ  brevity, conciseness, simplicity
簡素 かんそ  simplicity, plain


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