Hanja Analyzer
垠

垠 — eun

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
지경 은
Romanization
eun
English
boundary, bank of stream or river
Mandarin
yín
Japanese on'yomi
ギン, コン, ゴン
Japanese kun'yomi
きし さか.い
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
9
Radical
土 (32, 6 residual)
Phonetic component
艮
Unicode
U+57A0

Parts that make up 垠

  • 土 흙 토, 뿌리 두 땅 위에 쌓인 흙더미흙·땅과 그 위에 세운 것
  • 艮 괘이름 간sound 돌아보는 눈‘간·안·한’ 계열의 소리

How 垠 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 垠 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 土, 艮.

Korean example words with 垠

  • 은제垠際 Korean gloss: 가장자리 끝.
  • 구은九垠 Korean gloss: 구주(九州) 또는 구천(九天)의 끝. 곧 천지(天地)의 끝을 이르는 말이다.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Characters sharing the phonetic 艮

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “은”

Other hanja with radical 土

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