漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
界: world, boundary
JLPT N49 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
田 carries the meaning · 介 gives the sound
9 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
カイkai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 世界せかいworld
- 業界ぎょうかいindustry, business
- 学界がっかいacademic world
- 政界せいかいpolitical world
- 経済界けいざいかいeconomic world
- 限界げんかいlimit [n.]
- 境界きょうかいboundary
- 他界するたかいするpass away
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)田 field (meaning) + 介 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 界 (rev. 92199712), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The lifeblood of the village! Imagine a patchwork of green rice fields stretching across a fertile valley.”
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界 world · 介
vs卑 lowly · 丿 + 十In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiè
Same form: 界 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 界 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 界 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiè 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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