垣 — Chinese character
垣
yuán
low wall
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 土 亘
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 亘
- Japanese
- 垣 as a kanji
Common words with 垣
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城垣 | chéng yuán | city wall |
| 残垣断壁 (殘垣斷壁) | cán yuán duàn bì | see 断壁残垣 (duàn bì cán yuán) |
| 墙垣 (牆垣) | qiáng yuán | wall; fence |
| 断壁残垣 (斷壁殘垣) | duàn bì cán yuán | (lit.) broken walls and crumbling remnants (idiom); (fig.) scene of devastation; ruins |
| 断垣残壁 (斷垣殘壁) | duàn yuán cán bì | see 断壁残垣 (duàn bì cán yuán) |
| 残垣 (殘垣) | cán yuán | (literary) ruined walls; ruins |
| 垝垣 | guǐ yuán | collapsed wall; ruined wall |
| 垣衣 | yuán yī | moss under old walls |
| 墉垣 | yōng yuán | city wall |
| 掖垣 | yè yuán | sidewalls of a palace |
| 断壁颓垣 (斷壁頹垣) | duàn bì tuí yuán | see 断壁残垣 (duàn bì cán yuán) |
| 断瓦残垣 (斷瓦殘垣) | duàn wǎ cán yuán | the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated |
垣 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 1
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