(jiè) - boundary, realm (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
jièTraditional: 界
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Translation
boundary, realm (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: 田 (field) gives the meaning of land divisions and boundaries, and 介 (jiè) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 田 (field) + 介 (jiè, phonetic)
Stroke order
界
Examples
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The world is big.
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He wants to see the world.
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The whole world knows.
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He is very famous in the academic world.
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The whole world is paying attention.
界 (jiè) means boundary or realm and is the bound second half of 世界 (shìjiè), the everyday word for world.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 界.
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