境jìng
boundary, frontier; area, region. 14 strokes, radical 土, first met in HSK 3.
How to write 境
Strokes 1–3 write 土, then strokes 4–14 write 竟.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 境 · the stroke-order rules
What 境 is made of
土 (tǔ, soil) and 竟 (jìng, finally).
土 carries the meaning — earth — and 竟 carries the sound.
Words that use 境
| 环境 | the surroundings one lives in 人们生活或工作周围的一切条件 这所学校的学习环境非常安静。This school offers a very quiet environment for studying. Lesson 155, 生态自然与环保 · 气候环境与地理风貌 · Climate, Environment & Regional Geography |
| 边境 | border, frontier (of a country) 指国家与国家之间相接的地方 两国在边境地区设立了友好的检查站。The two countries set up a friendly checkpoint in the border region. Lesson 390, 彼此相依 · 辨微知著与兼修博览 · Essentials & Institutional Learning |
Characters that share the sound part 竟
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 土
All 34 of them, and what the radical means, on the 土 radical page.