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corner: a part of something where two or more sides, lines or edges join the four corners of a square

I hit my knee on the corner of the table.

Write your address in the top right-hand corner of the letter.

the left/right corner

the north-west/north-east/south-east/south-west corner

A smile lifted the corner of his mouth.

in the corner of something a speck of dirt in the corner of her eye

He scored with a shot into the bottom corner of the goal.

She tucked the ball into the corner of the net.

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A corner is often the interface between 2 adjacent walls. What is the interface between a floor and a wall as shown in the picture called: a corner, too?

Note: If I translated literally from Vietnamese (my mother tongue) to English, it would be "wall-foot".

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  • It could still be corner. A square (2 dimensions) has 4 sides, but a cube (3 dimensions) has 6 sides. If I were to rotate a cube, would some of its corners disappear while others appeared?
    – Jason Bassford
    Commented May 9, 2020 at 17:04
  • In a basement, that's called a cove joint. If the room in question is not part of a basement, then it's a wall-floor joint or a floor-wall joint. (People who build houses may have a more specialized term.) However, in most cases, most people would just call it "where the wall and floor meet," "where the floor meets the wall," or "where the wall meets the floor." A wooden board or something similar running along the bottom of the wall adjacent to the floor is called a baseboard (or mopboard, skirting board, skirting, etc.), but that's clearly not what you're asking about.
    – Nanigashi
    Commented May 9, 2020 at 17:08
  • However, even though I see no difference between a square and a cube in terms of terminology, I don't think you're using the word corner correctly even when it comes to a square. And what you're pointing to in the diagram as a corner is not what would normally be thought of as a corner. (Regardless of wall meeting wall or wall meeting floor.) In that picture, it's only the intersection of 3 lines (wall, wall, and floor, or wall, wall, and ceiling) that would be a corner.
    – Jason Bassford
    Commented May 9, 2020 at 17:11
  • It is not an interface at all. It's where the walls joins the floor.
    – Lambie
    Commented May 9, 2020 at 17:49
  • What do you call it Vietnamese? What does a bilingual dictionary offer as a translation? Are you looking for a technical architectural term, or the phrase that you might use casually? Can you give an example sentence showing how you want to use this word or phrase?
    – James K
    Commented May 9, 2020 at 18:47

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