Additional information about 涯
說文解字: 【涯】，水邊也。从水、从厓，厓亦聲。 【魚羈切】
- Criteria
- LIMIT
1. The most common word for the extreme limit of anything, especially of abstract things, is jí 極.
2. Jì 際 commonly refers to the interface between two realms of things.
3. Yín 垠 refers to a distant limit on earth.
4. Gāi 垓 is a rare and rarified word referring to cosmological limits.
5. Yá 涯 and the etymologically related yá 崖 refer poetically to the limitations of things in time.
6. Liàng 量 can refer abstractly to the fixed limit to something, for example the use of wine at meals.
- SHORE
1. The most current and general word for a shore of any kind became àn 岸, which originally referred to a steep embankment.
2. Yá 涯 typically refers to a distant shore, and the word is often used metaphorically for "limit".
3. Bīn 濱 refers to the general area near a river or a lake, including the shoreline.
4. Hǔ 滸 refers to a the well-defined area very near a river or lake.
5. Pǔ 浦 refers to an estuary where small rivers meet larger ones, or where a river runs into a lake or the sea, and it is important that this term included the area covered by water.
6. Sì 涘 is a poetic and archaic general word for a river bank.
NB: As far as I can see there was no special word for the sea-shore.