yá
shore
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 涯
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
career | ||
a faraway place | ||
the ends of the earth | ||
border | ||
to travel the world |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋˤrar | ngea | yá | 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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