Kan

Japanese: 簡 - カン

[Sound] Kan (Han) Ken (Go) [Reading] Fuda, letter, omit, choose [Kanji] 6th grade〈Kan〉
1. Bamboo or wooden tablets used to write characters in the past. "Mistakes, remnants, fragments, bamboo tablets, wooden tablets"
2. Letters. "Noble letter, personal letter, letter, letter from a visitor"
3. It has omitted unnecessary parts. It has cut corners. "Simple, concise, simple, easy, simple, clear, concise, simple/traditional and simple"
4. To distinguish between good and bad.
<Ken> To think about various things.
[Name] Akira, Hiro, Fumi, Yasushi

Kan [Simple]

[noun/adjective]
1. Something that is easy to use. Also, the state of being easy.
2 In China, before the invention of paper, bamboo or wooden tablets with characters written on them. By extension, letters.

Source: About Shogakukan Digital Daijisen Information | Legend

Japanese:

［音］カン（漢）　ケン（呉）　［訓］ふだ　てがみ　はぶく　えらぶ
［学習漢字］6年
〈カン〉
１昔、文字を書くのに用いた竹や木のふだ。「錯簡・残簡・断簡・竹簡・木簡」
２手紙。「貴簡・手簡・書簡・来簡」
３余計な部分をはぶいてある。手を抜いてある。「簡易・簡潔・簡素・簡単・簡便・簡明・簡要・簡略／繁簡」
４よしあしをより分ける。「簡閲・簡抜」
〈ケン〉あれこれ思いはかる。「料簡・了簡」
［名のり］あきら・ひろ・ふみ・やすし