閒 (xián)
idle; free time; leisure
How 閒 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 門 — gate
- Traditional
- 閒
- Simplified
- 閒 (unchanged)
閒 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- jiàn
- variant of 間|间[jian4]
- xián
- variant of 閑|闲, idle; unoccupied; leisure; free time
閒 in a sentence
他們在公園裡閒聊。
Tāmen zài gōngyuán lǐ xiánliáo.
“They are chatting idly in the park.”
How common is 閒?
閒 is the 6,738th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 100% of all running text.
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