gèng

堩

Character · NounTraditional亙

road; path (archaic)

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Meanings

1 sense · 2 examples
1.

noun

road; path; way

archaic

Archaic literary usage. This character is standardly pronounced gèn (e.g., 亘古 gèngǔ), but in the specific classical sense of 'road' and in the variant form 堩, it is pronounced gèng.

Gèng亘
cháng长
dī堤
yǐ以
wéi为
fáng防
 。

They constructed a long embankment as a defense.

Héng横
gèn亘
yú于
qián前
 。

It stretches across in front.