jiāng
boundary
Depicts boundary lines between fields (田).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kaŋ | kjang | jiāng | boundary, limit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+757A |
Shuowen | “畺,界也。从畕、三,其界畫也。疆,畺或从彊、土。” |
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