涯
border; horizon; shore
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How 涯 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 厓 (phonetic, yá)
components: 氵 厓
How to remember it
bank · Heisig RSH #1541
cliff + bricks + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 厓
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 厓 (yá) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 厓 sound component | yá | precipice; river bank, shore; surname |
| 睚 | yá | to stare |
| 捱 | ái | to put off, to procrastinate; to endure |
Words containing 涯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学海无涯 | xué hǎi wú yá | sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn; ars longa, … |
| 海内存知己，天涯若比邻 | hǎi nèi cún zhī jǐ , tiān yá ruò bǐ lín | close friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door; close in spirit although fa… |
| 地角天涯 | dì jiǎo tiān yá | The ends of the earth |
| 天涯海角 | Tiān yá Hǎi jiǎo | Tianya Haijiao, tourism area on the south coast of Hainan, 24 km west of Sanya 三亞|三亚[San1 … |
| 天涯海角 | tiān yá hǎi jiǎo | the ends of the earth; separated worlds apart |
| 海角天涯 | hǎi jiǎo tiān yá | see 天涯海角[tian1 ya2 hai3 jiao3] |
| 天涯区 | Tiān yá Qū | Tianya, a district of Sanya City 三亞市|三亚市[San1 ya4 Shi4], Hainan |
| 天涯何处无芳草 | tiān yá hé chù wú fāng cǎo | there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom) |
| 天涯若比邻 | tiān yá ruò bǐ lín | far-flung realms as next door (idiom); close in spirit although far away |
| 天涯比邻 | tiān yá bǐ lín | see 天涯若比鄰|天涯若比邻[tian1 ya2 ruo4 bi3 lin2] |
| 吾生也有涯，而知也无涯 | wú shēng yě yǒu yá , ér zhī yě wú yá | Life is short, learning is limitless; Ars longa, vita brevis |
| 浪迹天涯 | làng jì tiān yá | to roam far and wide (idiom); to travel the world |
| 戎马生涯 | róng mǎ shēng yá | army life (idiom); the experience of war |
| 生涯 | shēng yá | career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life |
| 天涯 | Tiān yá | see 天涯區|天涯区[Tian1 ya2 Qu1] |
| 天涯 | tiān yá | the other end of the world; a faraway place |
| 职涯 | zhí yá | career |
| 咫尺天涯 | zhǐ chǐ tiān yá | so close, yet worlds apart (idiom) |