涯
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border; horizon; shore
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 涯
- Common rank
- #2,547
- Unicode
- U+6DAF
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Formation & memory
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How 涯 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 厓 sound ()
Components 氵 厓
How to remember it
bank · Heisig RSH #1541
cliff + bricks + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 涯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学海无涯 | sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn; ars longa, … | |
| 海内存知己，天涯若比邻 | close friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door; close in spirit although fa… | |
| 地角天涯 | The ends of the earth | |
| 天涯海角 | Tianya Haijiao, tourism area on the south coast of Hainan, 24 km west of Sanya 三亞|三亚[San1 … | |
| 天涯海角 | the ends of the earth; separated worlds apart | |
| 海角天涯 | see 天涯海角[tian1 ya2 hai3 jiao3] | |
| 天涯区 | Tianya, a district of Sanya City 三亞市|三亚市[San1 ya4 Shi4], Hainan | |
| 天涯何处无芳草 | there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom) | |
| 天涯若比邻 | far-flung realms as next door (idiom); close in spirit although far away | |
| 天涯比邻 | see 天涯若比鄰|天涯若比邻[tian1 ya2 ruo4 bi3 lin2] | |
| 吾生也有涯，而知也无涯 | Life is short, learning is limitless; Ars longa, vita brevis | |
| 浪迹天涯 | to roam far and wide (idiom); to travel the world | |
| 戎马生涯 | army life (idiom); the experience of war | |
| 生涯 | career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life | |
| 天涯 | see 天涯區|天涯区[Tian1 ya2 Qu1] | |
| 天涯 | the other end of the world; a faraway place | |
| 职涯 | career | |
| 咫尺天涯 | so close, yet worlds apart (idiom) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 厓 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 厓 sound part | precipice; river bank, shore; surname | |
| 睚 | to stare | |
| 捱 | to put off, to procrastinate; to endure |