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界

jiè

boundary

Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 介 represents the sound.

Components
田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

介 sound component

介  Sound component

jiè

  

to lie between

Evolution

界 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

界  

jiè

boundary, limit; domain; society; the world; boundary; scope; extent; circles; group; kingdom (taxonomy)

Most common words with 界
Freq.
Word
Meaning

世界

world

全世界

worldwide

界

scope

世界杯

World Cup

外界

external

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤr[e][t]-s

keajH

jiè

boundary


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 74.7557% of movies

430th most common character in movies

288th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+754C

Shuowen

“畍，境也。从田，介聲。”


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