Kanji1 / 9
界 kanji
world, boundary
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
カイ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 界
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —水界hydrosphere; boundary of water and land
- —浪界world of naniwabushi singers
- —新界New Territories (Hong Kong); Neogaean realm (terrestrial division in zoogeography)
- —国界border (between countries); national border
- —死界the underworld; world after death; blind spot; place not in the field of vision; dead space
- —界磁(magnetic) field system; field magnet
- —境界(one's) circumstances in life (determined by the karma of a previous life); situation in life; (one's) lot in life; situation; circumstance
- —物界material world
- —心界mental world; spiritual world
- —星界Seikai (series of science fiction novels by Hiroyuki Morioka)
- —現界manifestation (in the physical world); materialization; incarnation; appearing (of a spirit, deity, etc.); this world; the physical world; the present world
- —医学界medical world; medical circles; medical community
- —花柳界red-light district; pleasure quarters; world of the geisha; demimonde
- —旧世界Old World (i.e. Asia, Africa, Europe)
- —境界線boundary line
- —業界紙trade journal
- —業界初the industry's first ...
- —芸能界show business; entertainment industry; world of entertainment
- —限界点threshold; breaking point
- —今世界this world