漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
境: boundary, border
Also: region
JLPT N214 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 土earth(meaning)
- 竟(sound)
土 carries the meaning · 竟 gives the sound
14 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
キョウkyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 境界きょうかいboundary
- 境遇きょうぐうenvironment, circumstances
- 国境こっきょうnational or state border
- 辺境へんきょうremote region
- 環境かんきょうenvironment, circumstance
- 心境しんきょうmental state
- 逆境ぎゃっきょうadversity
- 苦境くきょうtrouble, crisis, predicament
ケイkei · on'yomi
- 境内けいだいtemple/shrine's precincts
さかいsakai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 境さかいborder, boundary
- 県境けんざかいprefectural border/boundary
- 見境なくみさかいなくindiscriminately
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)土 earth (meaning) + 竟 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 境 (rev. 92303359), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a cross planted firmly in the ground—that's 土! It shows a stake or a seedling marking the earth, reminding us of farming, construction, and the solid foundation upon which we build our lives and cities.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side境 boundary · 土 + 竟
vs暗 darkness · 日 + 音In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jìng
Same form: 境 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 境 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 境 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jìng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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