界

See also 畍

Translingual

Han character

界 (radical 102 田+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田人中中 (WOLL), four-corner 4612₈, composition ⿱田介)

1. boundary, limit
2. domain, realm, zone, area
3. society
4. the world

References

• KangXi: page 760, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21775
• Dae Jaweon: page 1170, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2534, character 2
• Unihan data for U+754C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

界 (Yale gaai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

界 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かい (kai)
• Kun: さかい (sakai)

Suffix

界 (hiragana かい, romaji -kai)

1. the world of
2. the limits of

Compounds

Compounds

世界 (せかい, sekai): world; land, realm 結界 (けっかい, kekkai): a cordoned off area; a barrier 境界 (きょうかい, kyōkai): a boundary, a border, a limit 物質界 (ぶっしつかい, busshitsukai): the material world 精神界 (せいしんかい, seishinkai): the spiritual world

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Korean

Hanja

界 (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

界 (pinyin jiè (jie4), Wade-Giles chieh⁴)

Compounds

• 邊界

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Vietnamese

Han character

界 (giới)