jìng
boundary
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 竟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jìng
boundary, frontier; area, region; border; place; condition; boundary; circumstances; territory
Most common words with 境
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
environment | ||
situation (of a person) | ||
plight | ||
frontier | ||
border |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]raŋʔ | kjaengX | jǐng | boundary |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 40.5895% of movies
1041st most common character in movies
582nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+5883 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“境，疆也。从土，竟聲。經典通用竟。” |
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