～間

～かん · ～kan · JLPT N2 · noun

between

🚪☀️ 間 = 門 gate + 日 sun: sunlight shining through the gap between the doors

As a suffix, ～間 (kan) marks a span of time or space: 三日間 = for three days, 東京・大阪間 = between Tokyo and Osaka. The gap in the gate is the stretch between two points.

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