jiǎn

Traditional: 简

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Translation

simple, brief

Stroke order

Stroke order for 简

Examples

This problem isn't simple.

He's downright a genius.

He likes a simple life.

This method is very simple.

duǎn

His reply was very brief.

简 (jiǎn) means simple or brief. It anchors 简单 (simple), 简体 (simplified, as in simplified Chinese), and the intensifying adverb 简直 (simply, downright).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 简.

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This word is part of lesson 102.