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Kanji Detail for 涯 - "shore, limit, lifetime"

涯

  • Meaning

    涯 means "shore, limit, lifetime." Also associated with life.

    1. Shore - The edge of water and land.

    2. Limit - The boundary; the end point.

    3. Lifetime - The span of one's life.

  • Words using 涯

    • 生涯 しょうがい Listen life; lifetime; career

  • Four-character idioms with 涯

    • 天涯地角 てんがいちかく Listen two places being far apart
    • 天涯孤独 てんがいこどく Listen a person without a single relative
    • 天涯比隣 てんがいひりん Listen a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood

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    • Verified meaning: shore, limit, lifetime
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: life

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    horizon; shore; limit; bound

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    shore, bank, water's edge

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    border; horizon; shore

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    border, horizon; river bank, shore

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The shore of water. | Borrowed to mean exhaustion. That which is inexhaustible is called 無涯 (boundless). See Zhuangzi.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gai(ガイ) ガイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hate(はて) はて

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    shore limit lifetime end water's edge horizon boundary border extent range scope span brink

Sentences including 涯

  • He helped poor people all his life.

  • He stayed at the same job for his whole life.

  • She continued studying all her life.

  • He lived a happy life.

  • It was the biggest mistake of my life.

  • His was a remarkable life.

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