Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

涯: horizon, shore

Also: limit, bound

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 厓 gives the sound

11 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ガイgai · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 生涯しょうがいlife; lifetime; career
  • 生涯教育しょうがいきょういくlifelong education; continuing education
  • 天涯てんがいhorizon; distant land; skyline

Also read はて, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
More in the 氵 water story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
氵

Also built on water (氵)

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厓

Also built on 厓

Also read ガイ

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
涯 horizon · 氵
vs崖 cliff · 山
涯 has 氵 where 崖 has 山.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yá

Same form: 涯 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
涯 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
涯 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yá 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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