Chinese Character Wiki

閑

xián

fence

A wooden fence 木 with a door 門

Components
門 meaning component

門  Meaning component

mén

  

door

木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

閑 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
閑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閑 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
閑 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
閑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

闲 (閑) 

xián

fence, barrier; defend; idle time; enclosure; (variant of 閒|闲[xián]) idle; unoccupied; leisure

Most common words with 閑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

休闲

leisure

闲

to stay idle

闲聊

to chat

闲逛

to stroll

管闲事

to meddle

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

嫻

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-kˤre[n]

hean

xián

idle

*[g]ˤra[n]

hean

xián

great; large-minded

*[g]ˤra[n]

hean

xián

well-trained

*[g]ˤra[n]

hean

xián

bar, barrier


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 23.3221% of movies

1500th most common character in movies

1529th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

闲

Unicode

U+9591

Shuowen

“閑，闌也。从門中有木。”


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