嵴
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Meaning: ridge
💡 Mountain (山) with a spine (脊) – think of a mountain's backbone as a 'ridge'.
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Character Story & Explanation
嵴 (jí) depicts a mountain ridge, combining the radical 山 (mountain) with 脊 (jí, spine/ridge) as a phonetic and semantic component. It specifically refers to the crest of a mountain or the spine-like ridge of a hill. This character is less common but appears in geological terms and literary descriptions of rugged terrain, evoking the image of a mountain's backbone.
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