沿

along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge

沿 = + + : Maud Younger (y) hides a huge mandarin (口) under a table (几) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). She doesn't want anyone to touch it, so she marks the border (沿) of the forbidden zone using water bottles (氵).

沿 character breakdown

small table

Joan of Arc (ji) is sitting at a small table (几) in front of the space station (Ø1) and reading her Bible, waiting for a message from God.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
almost
how much / how many / several / a few
"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.

Characters with 沿 as component

沿 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 沿

front-line / forward position / outpost / extending ahead / frontier (of science, technology etc)
historical development / background
following the model / according to precedent
edge (used directly after a noun, e.g. roadside 馬路沿兒|马路沿儿)
tape seam (in dressmaking) / tape trim
along the river / the region around the river
Yanhe Tujia autonomous county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[Tong2 ren2 di4 qu1], Guizhou
variant of 帽檐[mao4 yan2]

Sentences with 沿

沿 currently does not appear in any sentence.