垠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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yín

boundary

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ

earth

艮 Sound component

gěn, gèn

blunt

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yín

boundary, bank of stream or river; limit; border; river bank

Most common words with 垠

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	无垠	vast
	垠	limit
	一望无垠	to stretch as far as the eye can see (idiom)
	姚雪垠	Yao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ŋ]ər	ngj+n	yín	raised border, dike

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4331st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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