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

crude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can / to do things simply and thriftily / It's not pretty but it works.
(literary) letter
to simplify and condense (a text) / abridged
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
bamboo slip used for record keeping during the Han Dynasty
Wrigley's Spearmint (brand)
Bai Xingjian (c. 776-826), younger brother of Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4], Tang novelist and poet, author of novel Tale of Courtesan Li Wa 李娃傳|李娃传[Li3 Wa2 Zhuan4]
bamboo writing slips in ancient times (joined together to form whole scrolls)
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简[er4 jian3]
Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë 夏洛特·勃良特[Xia4 luo4 te4 · Bo2 liang2 te4]
booklet / brochure / (old) book (made of bamboo strips tied together)
general rule / simple principle
not simple; rather complicated / remarkable; marvelous
bamboo slips (used for writing on in ancient times)
booklet; brochure / (old) book (made of bamboo strips tied together)
not simple / rather complicated / remarkable / marvelous
abbr. for 第二次漢字簡化方案|第二次汉字简化方案[Di4 er4 ci4 Han4 zi4 Jian3 hua4 Fang1 an4]

Sentences with 简

nà
jiǎn
zhí
jiù
shì
wú
kě
bǐ
yù