Refers to an unoccupied room or apartment available for rent. Common in real estate contexts.
このアパートには空き間が一つあります。
There is one vacant room in this apartment.
This apartment building still has a vacant unit.
Dated term for a physical gap or opening between objects. Modern Japanese more often uses 隙間 (すきま) or 空き (あき).
戸の空き間から風が入ってくる。
The wind comes in through the gap in the door.
板と板の間に空き間ができた。
A gap formed between the boards.
I'm looking for a vacant room near the station.
空き部屋 is the everyday word for a vacant room, while 空き間 is a more old-fashioned term used mainly in real estate listings.
隙間 is the common modern word for a physical gap or crevice, while 空き間 in this sense is dated and rarely used today.
空き is the plainer, more current word for an open space or gap, whereas 空き間 sounds old-fashioned for the same idea.
満室 means fully occupied with no vacancies, the direct opposite of 空き間 in the sense of an available room.
空き家 means an entire vacant house, not a single vacant room or gap like 空き間, despite the similar spelling.
Standard kanji spelling for this word.
Rarely used kanji form.
Irregular okurigana usage; Normally read くうかん.
Compound of 空き (あき, 'empty') + 間 (ま, 'room' or 'space'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used since at least the Edo period.