亘

亙
gèn
verb #39,424

Meanings

  1. 1 to extend across; to stretch unbroken

Examples

HSK 7-9
长城绵亘千里。
Chángchéng miángèn qiānlǐ.
The Great Wall stretches unbroken for thousands of miles.
HSK 7-9
这是一项亘古未有的壮举。
Zhè shì yí xiàng gèngǔwèiyǒu de zhuàngjǔ.
This is an unprecedented feat that has never happened in all of history.

Tips

usage
Literary. It describes something stretching unbroken across space or time: 绵亘 (stretching continuously, of mountains) and 亘古 (throughout all the ages, since ancient times).

Components

ideograph
二 èr
two; two boundary lines
The top and bottom horizontals act as two limits; the character pictures something running unbroken from one boundary line to the other. These two strokes are written first and last in the stroke order, wrapping the middle.
semantic
日 rì
sun; a span
The 日-like box in the center represents what spans between the two lines, reinforcing the sense of a continuous reach across a stretch.

Stroke Order

亘 gèn