Kanji1 / 12
圏 kanji
sphere, circle, radius, range
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ケン
Kun readings
かこい
Variant forms
圈Words with 圏
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —東京圏Tokyo area (esp. in ref. to Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba); Tokyo region
- —生存圏Lebensraum
- —近畿圏wider Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Shiga, Wakayama and Fukui prefectures); wider Kansai area
- —雪氷圏cryosphere
- —徒歩圏(within) walking distance
- —大圏図gnomonic chart; great-circle chart; great-circle map
- —中京圏Chūkyō metropolitan area (most of Aichi, and parts of Gifu and Mie prefectures; centered around Nagoya); Chūkyō region
- —亜成層圏substratosphere
- —大圏航路great circle sailing route
- —通信圏外out of the range of communication
- —勢力圏内within the sphere of influence (of)
- —当選圏内(having a) good chance of being elected; being in the running
- —旧ソ連圏former Soviet bloc
- —水圏科学hydrospheric sciences
- —非英語圏non-English-speaking world; non-Anglosphere
- —大都市圏greater metropolitan area; megalopolis; conurbation
- —大気圏外outside Earth's atmosphere; outer space; exoatmosphere; exo-atmosphere
- —ユーロ圏eurozone; euro zone; euro area
- —非漢字圏countries that do not use Chinese characters in their writing; non-kanji countries
- —大気圏内within Earth's atmosphere; inner space