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垠

yín

Character

What 垠 means

1. limit
2. border
3. river bank

Example sentences

• 撒哈拉沙漠广袤无垠。
  Sǎhālā Shāmò guǎngmào wúyín.
  The Sahara is a vast desert.

Words containing 垠

• 无垠wú yínboundless; vast
• 姚雪垠Yáo Xuě yínYao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成
• 一望无垠yī wàng wú yínto stretch as far as the eye can see (idiom)

Characters built on 艮

These share the phonetic component 艮 (gěn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 银yínsilver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
• 龈yíngums (of the teeth)

Characters that look like 垠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 服fúclothes; dress; garment
• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
• 底dǐbottom; base; background; foundation; copy (of a manuscript or receipt etc) kept as a…
• 恨hènto hate; to regret
• 氓mángused in 流氓
• 岷mínname of a river in Sichuan

Sounds the same

Read yín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 银silver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
• 吟to chant; to recite; verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems)…
• 淫excess; excessive; wanton
• 寅3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the…
• 鄞used in 鄞州
• 婬obscene, licentious, lewd
• 狺snarling of dogs
• 夤late at night
• 崟high; rugged mountains; steep
• 霪heavy rain
• 冘to go forward; to advance
• 嚚insincere; stupid