民间

Character by character

• 民mín5 strokesHSK 3people, subjects, citizens
• 间jiān7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 間midpoint, space; place, locality

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 民间. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 时间shí jiānHSK 1

  time; period

• 之间zhī jiānHSK 4

  (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间)

• 间jiānHSK 1

  between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms

• 人民rén mínHSK 3

  the people

• 空间kōng jiānHSK 4

  space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space

• 房间fáng jiānHSK 1

  room

• 期间qī jiānHSK 4

  period of time; time; time period; period

• 中间zhōng jiānHSK 1

  the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime

• 居民jū mínHSK 4

  resident; inhabitant

• 市民shì mínHSK 6

  city resident

• 公民gōng mínHSK 3

  citizen

• 民主mín zhǔHSK 6

  democracy

• 农民nóng mínHSK 3

  peasant; farmer

• 瞬间shùn jiānHSK 7

  in an instant; in a flash

• 民族mín zúHSK 3

  nationality; ethnic group

• 移民yí mínHSK 4

  to immigrate; to migrate; emigrant; immigrant

• 民众mín zhòngHSK 7

  the populace; the masses; the common people

• 人间rén jiānHSK 5

  the human world; the earth

• 间谍jiàn diéHSK 7

  spy

• 平民píng mínHSK 7

  ordinary people; commoner; civilian

• 中华民族zhōng huá mín zúHSK 3

  the Chinese nation; the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)

• 国民guó mínHSK 5

  nationals; citizens; people of a nation

• 夜间yè jiānHSK 5

  nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes)

• 卫生间wèi shēng jiānHSK 3

  bathroom; toilet; WC