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限

xiàn

boundary

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

艮 sound component

艮  Sound component

gěn, gèn

  

blunt

Evolution

限 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
限 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

限  

xiàn

boundary, limit, line; limit; bound; to set a limit (on)

Most common words with 限
Freq.
Word
Meaning

限制

to restrict

有限公司

limited company

有限

limited

无限

unlimited

限

limit

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤrə[n]ʔ

heanX

xiàn

obstacle, limit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.5393% of movies

1238th most common character in movies

613th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+9650

Shuowen

“限，阻也。一曰門榍。从，艮聲。”


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