簡

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

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

simple and convenient / handy

(literary) letter

crude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can / to do things simply and thriftily / It's not pretty but it works.

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]

booklet / brochure / (old) book (made of bamboo strips tied together)

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]

to simplify and condense (a text) / abridged

"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking