涯 — Chinese character
涯
yá
border, horizon; river bank, shore
- Pinyin
- yá
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 厓
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 厓
- Japanese
- 涯 as a kanji
Common words with 涯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生涯 | shēng yá | career; life (way in which sb lives) |
| 天涯 | tiān yá | the other end of the world; a faraway place |
| 天涯海角 | tiān yá hǎi jiǎo | the ends of the earth; separated worlds apart |
| 职涯 (職涯) | zhí yá | career |
| 浪迹天涯 (浪跡天涯) | làng jì tiān yá | to roam far and wide (idiom); to travel the world |
| 海角天涯 | hǎi jiǎo tiān yá | see 天涯海角 (tiān yá hǎi jiǎo) |
| 咫尺天涯 | zhǐ chǐ tiān yá | so close, yet worlds apart (idiom) |
| 学海无涯 (學海無涯) | xué hǎi wú yá | sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn; ars longa, vita brevis |
| 戎马生涯 (戎馬生涯) | róng mǎ shēng yá | army life (idiom); the experience of war |
| 地角天涯 | dì jiǎo tiān yá | The ends of the earth |
| 天涯比邻 (天涯比鄰) | tiān yá bǐ lín | see 天涯若比邻 (tiān yá ruò bǐ lín) |
English words written with 涯
涯 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 6
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.