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際

jì

border

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

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

祭 sound component

祭  Sound component

jì, zhài

  

sacrifice to

Evolution

際 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
際 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

际 (際) 

jì

border, boundary, juncture; border; edge; boundary; interval; between; inter-; to meet; time; occasion; to meet with (circumstances)

Most common words with 際
Freq.
Word
Meaning

实际上

in fact

国际

international

实际

reality

之际

during

星际

interstellar

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts][a]p-s

tsjejH

jì

connection


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 53.4038% of movies

799th most common character in movies

423rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

际

Unicode

U+969B

Shuowen

“際，壁會也。从，祭聲。”


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