濒近 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

bīn riverside Simplified

Depicts a person standing (页) on the shore wading (涉) in shallow water.

Components

涉 Iconic component

shè wade

页 Iconic component

yè page

Depicts a head on top of a person.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

jìn near

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 斤 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

斤 Sound component

jīn axe

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gj+nX	N-kərʔ	near
	gj+nH	s-N-kərʔ-s	"be near to (v.t.)

說文解字

附也。从辵斤聲。

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

riverside Traditional

Depicts a person standing (頁) on the shore wading (涉) in shallow water.

Components

涉 Iconic component

shè wade

頁 Iconic component

yè (head), page

Depicts a head on top of a person.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjin	pi[n]	river bank, shore

說文解字

《說文》：“瀕，水厓，人所賓附，頻蹙不前而止。从頁，从涉。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

濒 bīn riverside Simplified

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近 jìn near

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瀕 riverside Traditional

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bīn riverside Simplified

jìn near

riverside Traditional