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An ideogram combining door (門) and moon (月), 閒 depicts the moon seen through a doorway at night. This originally signified a gap or interval, first the night itself, then any break in time or space. The temporal sense led to the meaning of unoccupied time, or leisure. As the traditional character, it corresponds to the simplified 间 (interval, space) and 闲 (leisure).
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