I am trying to study Japanese Kanjis using my limited knowledge of Chinese
language.  
Usually I can find a similar character (e.g. 国 → 国) or a very close one (e.g.
传 → 伝).  
But when there is no equivalent I translate from Chinese to Japanese and
pretty much most of the time I can find an equivalent character in terms of
meaning.

But this one 涵 is so abstract I can't find its close relation, What would it
be?

(ps: Are there are lot of Chinese characters that have no pair in the Japanese
language?)

**Update** : Deconstructing the character 涵, is 氵(water) + 函 (box). The
character seems to mean "holding water" (geological term, as earth retains
water) but in a broader sense it simply means "to hold".  
For instance in Chinese language 内涵 means "connotation" ([meaning] hold
within).  
Could it be 含?
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What would be the Japanese Kanji equivalent of the Chinese character 涵?
In Japanese, 涵 is still 涵, and this character is not simplified in neither
Chinese nor Japanese.

There are a few point to note:

  * After WWII, both China and Japan simplified some of the characters, some are simplified in the same way, some are simplified similarly, and some are simplified differently. E.g.  
_(Syntax: Traditional Chinese → Simplified Chinese/Kanji)_

> 國 → 国/国 (Simplified the same in SC and JP)  
>  鐵 → 铁/鉄 (Simplified similarly in SC and JP)  
>  傳 → 传/伝 (Simplified differently in SC and JP)

  * Aside from simplification, Japan also introduced character replacements, meaning some harder characters are replaced with easier ones, but the harder characters are not technically "simplified". E.g.

> 智慧 → 智慧/知恵  
>  掠奪 → 掠夺/略奪  
>  繃帶 → 绷带/包帯  
>  輪廓 → 轮廓/輪郭  
>

> But technically 智, 慧, 掠, 廓 and 繃 are never "simplified" in Japanese. They
> just aren't used anymore.

  * Then, there are just some characters that are never used in Japanese. Like 抻, 嘿, 啊, 忒, which are common to Chinese but Japanese never really adopted them into Japanese.

As for the case of 涵, it belongs to neither of these categories. It IS adapted
into Japanese(so not category 3), it is neither simplified in China nor in
Japan(so not category 1), and in Japan it is NOT replaced by 含(so not category
2). 涵 is used in words like 涵養{かんよう} and 涵{ひた}す.

Here a link to 涵 on KanjiPedia:

<https://www.kanjipedia.jp/kanji/0001064300>
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