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Mythic Mandarin

边境 (biān jìng): meaning and stroke order

边境 (biān jìng) means frontier; border.

边境

Simplified
边境
Traditional
邊境
Pinyin
biān jìng

Stroke order of 边境

边

  • biān side; edge
  • bian suffix of a noun of locality
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 邊

Stroke by stroke

境

  • jìng border; place
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 边境

  1. biān jìng Traditional 邊境
    • frontier; border

Radicals of the characters

边
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 6 strokes · built from 辶 and 力
境
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 14 strokes · 土 on the left, 竟 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

边境 in our stories

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  • 两千一百多年前，汉武帝想联合西边的大月氏，一起打败经常侵犯边境的匈奴。

    liǎngqiān yìbǎi duō nián qián Hàn Wǔdì xiǎng liánhé xībian de Dà Yuèzhī yìqǐ dǎbài jīngcháng qīnfàn biānjìng de Xiōngnú

    Over two thousand one hundred years ago, Emperor Wu of Han wanted to ally with the Yuezhi in the west to defeat the Xiongnu, who kept raiding the border.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

Stories using 边境

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).