Chinese symbol for “border”
境
jìng
border; place; condition; boundary
The closest CC-CEDICT match for border is 境 (jìng), defined as: border; place; condition; boundary; circumstances; territory.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “border”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 际 (際) | jì | border; edge |
| 疆 | jiāng | border; boundary |
| 界 | jiè | (bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm |
| 疆界 | jiāng jiè | border; boundary |
| 边境 (邊境) | biān jìng | frontier; border |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 境.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 环境 (環境) | huán jìng | environment; circumstances |
| 境内 (境內) | jìng nèi | within the borders; internal (to a country, province, city etc) |
| 边境 (邊境) | biān jìng | frontier; border |
| 境外 | jìng wài | outside (a country's) borders |
| 入境 | rù jìng | to enter a country |
| 困境 | kùn jìng | predicament; plight |
See also: Japanese symbol for “border”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.