simple / uncomplicated / letter / to choose / to select / bamboo strips used for writing (old)

= + : Joan of Arc is working out inside of the anthill. She put up a changing cubicle and on top of it a bamboo stick so that she can practise pull ups. It's very easy for her to do 20 pull ups in a row.

简 character breakdown

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

Mnemonic symbol: a bamboo stick.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is cooking bamboo shoots in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He's cooking them in a large pot and stirs them with a bamboo stick (⺮).
bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

= 𠂉 + + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.
between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a changing cubicle.

= + : Joan of Arc wants to try a new approach of solving earth's energy crisis. In front of the anthill she set up a changing cubicle and invites the sun to try it out. The sun doesn't know that the Joan of Arc installed a trap door inside of the changing cubicle and plans to exploit the sun as quasi inexhaustible energy source once she captured her.
gap / to separate / to thin out (seedlings) / to sow discontent

Characters with 简 as component

简 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 简

simple / not complicated
simply; really
concise / succinct / pithy
to simplify / to reduce
simplification / to simplify
newsletter / the news in brief / (Tw) SMS message
concise and comprehensive (idiom)
terse / succinct
(of an official) to travel with little luggage and just a small escort / to travel without ostentation
letter sheet (similar to an aerogram but not necessarily sent by airmail)
Wrigley's Juicy Fruit (brand)
bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times) / letter; correspondence; book; document

Sentences with 简

nà
jiǎn
zhí
jiù
shì
wú
kě
bǐ
yù