HSK Guide

部首 13an open frame; distant borders, the wilds beyond the city

jiǒng (third tone, dipping)

an open frame; distant borders, the wilds beyond the city

部首 132 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

A boundary line bent into three sides of a box, open at the bottom — the far frontier as early writers pictured it, a wall around the settled world with nothing marked beyond. It frames 再, a stand holding a second load ready to be added once more, and gathers 冈, a mountain ridge seen from a distance, and 册, the bundle of bound bamboo strips that made an early book or volume.

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