| Word form | kantan |
| Original script | 簡単 |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Comments on word | In Japanese, the form 簡短 was more commonly used until the Meiji era. The two characters are homophonous in Japanese, but not in Chinese, where jiănduăn 簡短 means “brief, short”. |
| Analyzability | analyzable compound |
| Gloss | kan-tan easy-simple |
| Age | Early Modern Japanese [21] (1604–1867) |
| Lexical stratum | kango |
| Year | 1836 |
| Register | General |