Chinese Character Wiki

垓

gāi

border

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

earth

亥 sound component

亥  Sound component

hài

  

12th terrestrial branch

Evolution

垓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

垓  

gāi

border, boundary, frontier; boundary

Most common words with 垓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

垓

boundary

垓下

ancient place name, in Anhui province

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6093rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5793

Shuowen

“垓，兼垓八極地也。《國語》曰：‘天子居九垓之田。’从土，亥聲。”


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