shore

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

厓 sound component

  Sound component

  

precipice

Evolution

涯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
涯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shore, bank, water's edge; border; horizon; shore

Most common words with 涯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

生涯

career

天涯

a faraway place

天涯海角

the ends of the earth

border

浪迹天涯

to travel the world

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋˤrar

ngea

river bank; limit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.9700% of movies

2175th most common character in movies

2604th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DAF

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“涯,水邊也。从水,从厓,厓亦聲。”


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