limit, restrict, to best of ability
限 centers on a boundary that constrains: setting a limit, restricting something, or pushing to the best of one's ability within those limits.
限 combines ⻖ (mound, hill) with 艮, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of stopping or looking back. Together they suggest a boundary or limit, like a hill that blocks the way.
The left side ⻖ is a hill or mound, and the right side 艮 looks like a person turning back. Imagine a hill that forces you to stop and turn around: that hill is your limit.
For ゲン, picture a general standing at the boundary of a hill, giving the order to stop: general -> ゲン, and the hill marks the limit.
limit; restriction
limit; limits; bounds
restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
to restrict; to limit; to confine
limit; bound
term; period; time frame
power; authority; jurisdiction
infinity; infinitude; eternity
upper limit
minimum
limit; bounds
finite; limited
maximum
utmost limits; extremity
minimum; lowest; minimal; least
(school) period
lower limit
limits; end; bounds
to give up on; to turn one's back on; to abandon; to forsake; to desert; to leave
not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling
particularly; only; in the case of
limited time
unlimited; unrestricted; limitless
indefinite