Pronunciation restriction: xi à n. Specified range: time limit, boundary, authority, restriction and quota. Designated scope: limited, limited, limited, limited (not exceeding the officially designated highest or lowest price), unlimited. Threshold: threshold. Danger: gap. Number of strokes: 8, radical: Li, five elements: gold, traditional: limited, five strokes: BVEY.
"Limit" was first seen in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Judging from the glyph of the bronze inscription (gourd ladle) in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the left side of "limit" is "fu", which means high hill; On the upper right is a big eye, and below is the "person" standing on the right; It means that a person looks back, but he is blocked by a high hill and can't see the distance. The shape of Xiao Zhuan doesn't change much on the left. The eyes on the upper right write the shape of eyes, but the "person" in the lower right corner becomes a "dagger" and no human figure can be seen.
At the stage of official script and regular script, great pseudo-changes have taken place in the right half: the "Fu" in the left half has become the "Fu" beside the left ear, the word "Mu" in the right half is missing a horizontal word "Day", and the people in the lower right still write "Bi". Regular script writing is "limited", completely losing the shape of "eyes" and "people"
The original meaning of the word "limit" is "barrier", for example, "there is a limit between Wushan in the south and central Guizhou." (National Policy Qin Ce I) From "barrier" to "restriction". The meaning of "restriction" can be extended to "boundary". The word "limit" is also called "threshold" because the function of "threshold" is "restriction". For example, Meng Jiao's "Women's Complaints" is "a thousand miles away, as close as the threshold".