Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jiè
English
- boundary, limit
- (bound form) boundary; border
- (slang) (of self-injury) to cut; (similar with "溝
- domain
- (bound form) realm
- society
- the world
- geographical boundary
- conceptual boundary (which is relatively abstract); standard of conceptual differentiation
- category of people
- kingdom, a taxonomic category
粵語
- 用嚟定立地理範圍嘅線（量詞：條）
- 抽象概念上嘅範圍（量詞：條）
- 社會中對人嘅分類
- 生物學分類法其中一類
As a component in
Words containing 界
- 境界ging2 gaai3
boundary
- 世界sai3 gaai3
world
- 邊界bin1 gaai3
boundary
- 外界ngoi6 gaai3
the outside world
- 世界波sai3 gaai3 bo1
(soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: 波 is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1])
- 界面gaai3 min2
contact surface
- 業界jip6 gaai3
industry
- 學界hok6 gaai3
academic world
- 界定gaai3 ding6
definition
- 界線gaai3 sin3
limits
- 界限gaai3 haan6
boundary
- 國界gwok3 gaai3
national boundary; border between countries
- 政界zing3 gaai3
political and government circles
- 出界ceot1 gaai3
to cross a border
- 眼界ngaan5 gaai3
(lit. and fig.) field of vision; scope; horizon
- 過界gwo3 gaai3
out of bounds
- 新界san1 gaai3
New Territories (in Hong Kong)
- 商界soeng1 gaai3
business world
- 交界gaau1 gaai3
common boundary
- 女界neoi5 gaai3
Female community; female toilets
- 租界zou1 gaai3
foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
- 界別gaai3 bit6
to divide up into different zones
- 報界bou3 gaai3
the press
- 世界上sai3 gaai3 soeng6
around the world; in this world