Japanese Word Entry
離間| Kana: | りかん |
| Romaji: | rikan |
| Definition: | estrangement, alienation, sowing discord, driving a wedge |
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Chinese characters used in this word
| 離 | detach, separation, disjoin, digress, leave, depart, go away, separate, trigram ☲, hexagram ䷝ |
Readings
| Mandarin: | ㄌㄧˊ (lí), ㄌㄧˋ (lì), ㄌㄧˇ (lǐ), ㄔ (chī), ㄍㄨˇ (gǔ) |
| Cantonese: | lei4 |
| Japanese: | リ (ri) / はな.れる (hanareru)、 はな.す (hanasu)、 つく (tsuku) |
| Korean: | 리 (ri), 이 (i) |
| Vietnamese: | ly, li |
Variants
| Simplified Chinese form: | 离 |
| 間 | interval, space, place, between |
Readings
| Mandarin: | ㄐㄧㄢ (jiān), ㄐㄧㄢˋ (jiàn), ㄐㄧㄢˇ (jiǎn) |
| Cantonese: | gaan1 |
| Japanese: | カン (kan)、 ケン (ken) / あいだ (aida)、 ま (ma)、 あい (ai)、 しずか (shizuka) |
| Korean: | 간 (gan) |
| Vietnamese: | gian |
Variants
| Simplified Chinese form: | 间 |
| Semantic variant form: | 閒 |
