限

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See also: 隄
限 U+9650, 限
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9650
← 陏
[U+964F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 陑 →
[U+9651]

Translingual

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Han character

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限 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓中日女 (NLAV), four-corner 77232, composition ⿰阝艮)

Derived characters

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Further reading

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1350, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41627
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1852, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4128, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9650

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 限

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (艮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
艱 *krɯːn
齦 *kʰrɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *ŋɯn
眼 *ŋrɯːnʔ
蛝 *ɡrɯːn
限 *ɡrɯːnʔ
硍 *ɡrɯːnʔ
豤 *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰuːn
詪 *ɡlɯːnʔ, *kɯːnʔ, *kɯːns
根 *kɯːn
跟 *kɯːn
珢 *kɯːn, *kɯːns, *ŋrɯn
艮 *kɯːns
茛 *kɯːns
墾 *kʰɯːnʔ
懇 *kʰɯːnʔ
垠 *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn
泿 *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn
痕 *ɡɯːn
拫 *ɡɯːn
鞎 *ɡɯːn
很 *ɡɯːnʔ
恨 *ɡɯːns
銀 *ŋrɯn
檭 *ŋrɯn

Pronunciation

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Note: hǎn/hān/ān - literary, ān - vernacular (Taiwanese, Xiamen).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 限
Mandarin Beijing /ɕian⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕian⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕian⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiã²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕian³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕiã⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕiã²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕian¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕian²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /xan¹³/
/ɕian¹³/
Guiyang /ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕien⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕiɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦe²³/
/ɦie²³/
Suzhou /ɦiɪ³¹/
/ɦe̞³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦiẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦa³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕie²²/
/xɛ²²/
Tunxi /xɔ¹¹/
/ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /xan⁵⁵/
/xan¹¹/
Xiangtan /han⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /han²¹/
Hakka Meixian /han⁵³/
Taoyuan /hɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /han²²/
Nanning /han²²/
Hong Kong /han²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /han²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /aiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xaiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /haŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /haŋ³³/
Rime
Character 限
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡簡切
Baxter heanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠɛnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦᵚænX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦəɨnX/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɛnX/
Wang
Li 		/ɣænX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣănX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		haan6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 限
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hɛnX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ɡ]ˁrə[n]ʔ/
English obstacle, limit

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 限
Reading # 1/1
No. 3916
Phonetic
component 		艮
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		限
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡrɯːnʔ/

Definitions

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限

  1. boundary; limit; line
    上限  ―  shàngxiàn  ―  upper limit
  2. to limit; to place a limit (on)
    舅父限表弟每個星期打機最多打一個鐘。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    舅父限表弟每个星期打机最多打一个钟。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    kau5 fu6-2 haan6 biu2 dai6 mui5 go3 sing1 kei4 daa2 gei1 zeoi3 do1 daa2 jat1 go3 zung1. [Jyutping]
    Uncle limits my little cousin to at most one hour of video games per week.
  3. (literary) doorstep; sill; threshold

Synonyms

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  • (boundary):
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  • (to limit):
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  • (doorstep):
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Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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限

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. limit

Readings

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Compounds

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Compounds

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
限
げん
Grade: 5
goon

Pronunciation

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Counter

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限(げん) • (-gen) 

  1. counter for school periods
    一(いち)限(げん)目(め)は数学(すうがく)だった。
    Ichigenme wa sūgaku datta.
    The first period was maths.

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
限
きり
Grade: 5
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 限 – see the following entry: 切り

(The following entry is uncreated: 切り.)

Korean

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Hanja

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限 • (han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune–Reischauer han, Yale han)

  1. hanja form? of 한 (“limit”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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限: Hán Nôm readings: hạn, hẹn, giận

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