限 xiàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 艮 blunt
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
限度
xiàndù
limit
Characters in this word
度 dù
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 忍耐也有一定限度，长期加班会影响健康。 Rěnnài yě yǒu yídìng xiàndù, chángqī jiābān huì yǐngxiǎng jiànkāng. Tolerance also has a certain limit; long-term overtime affects health.
- 杯子里的水已经到了限度，再倒就会洒出来。 Bēizi lǐ de shuǐ yǐjīng dào le xiàndù, zài dào jiù huì sǎ chūlai. The water in the cup has reached its limit, and pouring more will make it spill.
- 做任何事情都要有限度，不能太过分。 Zuò rènhé shìqing dōu yào yǒu xiàndù, bù néng tài guòfèn. Everything should have its limit, and you can't go too far.
Related words
- 期限 qīxiàn deadline
- 无限 wúxiàn unlimited; endless
- 限制 xiànzhì to limit; limit
- 有限 yǒuxiàn limited
- 局限 júxiàn to limit, to restrict
- 限 xiàn to limit
- 限于 xiànyú to be limited to
- 极限 jíxiàn limit; extreme
- 界限 jièxiàn boundary; limit
- 年限 niánxiàn time limit; fixed number of years; service life
- 权限 quánxiàn permission; authority; access rights
- 上限 shàngxiàn upper limit; ceiling