简

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

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

bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

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

gap / to separate / to thin out (seedlings) / to sow discontent

summary / brief introduction

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

"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking

minimalism

bamboo slip used for record keeping during the Han Dynasty

biographic sketch

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]

brief

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]

simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3]

simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字[fan2 ti3 zi4]

all brawn no brains

not simple; rather complicated / remarkable; marvelous

bamboo slips (used for writing on in ancient times)

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]

to simplify and condense (a text) / abridged