境
border; place; condition; boundary; circumstances; territory
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How 境 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 竟 (phonetic, jìng)
How to remember it
boundary · Heisig RSH #489
land + mirror
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 竟
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 竟 (jìng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 竟 sound component | jìng | finally, after all, at last; indeed; unexpected |
| 镜 | jìng | mirror, glass; lens, glasses |
| 獍 | jìng | the Manchurian tiger |
Words containing 境
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 环境行动主义 | huán jìng xíng dòng zhǔ yì | environmentalism; environmental activism |
| 边境地区 | biān jìng dì qū | border area |
| 出入境管理局 | Chū rù Jìng Guǎn lǐ jú | Exit and Entry Administration Bureau (PRC) |
| 分布式环境 | fēn bù shì huán jìng | distributed environment (computing) |
| 作业环境 | zuò yè huán jìng | operating environment |
| 出入境 | chū rù jìng | to leave or enter a country |
| 境内外 | jìng nèi wài | within and without the borders; domestic and foreign; home and abroad |
| 网路环境 | wǎng lù huán jìng | network environment |
| 进出境 | jìn chū jìng | entering and leaving a country |
| 境由心生 | jìng yóu xīn shēng | our mindset frames how we view the world |
| 大环境 | dà huán jìng | the environment (from a macro perspective); the broader context; the bigger picture |
| 环境卫生 | huán jìng wèi shēng | environmental sanitation; abbr. to 環衛|环卫[huan2 wei4] |
| 生态环境游 | shēng tài huán jìng yóu | ecotourism |
| 社会环境 | shè huì huán jìng | social environment; milieu |
| 国境 | guó jìng | national border; frontier |
| 心境 | xīn jìng | mood; mental state; frame of mind |
| 生境 | shēng jìng | habitat |
| 境地 | jìng dì | circumstances |
| 家境 | jiā jìng | family financial situation; family circumstances |
| 学无止境 | xué wú zhǐ jìng | no end to learning (idiom); There's always something new to study.; You live and learn. |