interval; between

Builds 106 distinct compound words — ranked #12 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: カン・ケン
訓 kun: あいだ・ま

The gap between two things, in space or time. 時間 time, 人間 a human being (literally 'between people'), 週間 a week's span.

The ten most common compounds built on 間. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

106compounds built

4,609times those words occur

#19by productivity alone

#19by how often it turns up

Where 間 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 間. Each one opens its own map.

人person人間#1 一one一週間、一時間#2 時time; hour時間、一時間#14 年year年間#26 長long; chief長い間#68

Words built on 間

時間じかん1,036 uses

間あいだ628 uses

人間にんげん418 uses

間違うまちがう290 uses

間違いまちがい264 uses

一週間258 uses

一時間200 uses

年間ねんかん183 uses

長い間133 uses

間違えるまちがえる120 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.