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瀕

bīn

riverside

Depicts a person standing (頁) on the shore wading (涉) in shallow water.

Components
涉 iconic component

涉  Iconic component

shè

  

wade

頁 iconic component

頁  Iconic component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head on top of a person.

Evolution

瀕 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
瀕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瀕 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
瀕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

濒 (瀕) 

bīn

approach, be on verge of; near; to approach; to border on

Most common words with 瀕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

濒临

on the edge of

濒危

endangered (species)

濒死

nearing death

濒

near

濒于

near to

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pi[n]

pjin

bīn

river bank, shore


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4347% of movies

2968th most common character in movies

3153rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

濒

Unicode

U+7015

Shuowen

“瀕，水厓，人所賓附，頻蹙不前而止。从頁，从涉。”


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