涯

Stroke order

涯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水一土土 (EMGG), four-corner 3111₄, composition ⿰氵厓)

• 𠽎 𦹹

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 627, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17582
• Dae Jaweon: page 1029, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1643, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6DAF

Historical forms of the character 涯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

From a root *ŋ(ˤ)rar (“slope, nearly vertical side”), whence also 巘 (OC *ŋ(r)ar(ʔ), “hill”), 山 (OC *s-ŋrar, “mountain”), and 顏 (OC *C.ŋˤrar, “forehead”) (Baxter & Sagart, 2014).

Same word as 崖 (yá, “cliff”) and 睚 (yá, “rim (of the eye)”) (Schuessler, 2007).

涯

1. (literary, or in compounds) bank; shore
2. (literary, or in compounds) limit; boundary; margin

• (limit):

• “涯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. shore, horizon

• Go-on: げ (ge)
• Kan-on: がい (gai, Jōyō)
• Kun: はて (hate, 涯)

By extension from verb 果(は)てる (hateru, “to be at an end, to finish, to be done”).

The hate reading for 涯 is rare, and is not listed in all dictionaries.

• (Tokyo) はて (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

涯(はて) • (hate) 

1. the end of the land: the shore

   Synonyms: 際涯, 限り

2. the end of the visible world: the horizon

From Middle Chinese 涯 (MC ngje|ngea). Recorded as Middle Korean 애 (ay) (Yale: ay) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

涯

Wikisource

涯 (eumhun 물가 애 (mulga ae))

1. hanja form^? of 애 (“shore”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

涯: Hán Nôm readings: rượi, nhai, nhười, rười, nhầy

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