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
- N1圏sphere; circle; range; area; zone; bloc; category
- —圏外Popularoutside (a region, area, etc.); out of range (of a mobile network, radar, etc.); outside the sphere (of influence, etc.); out of contention; out of reach
- —圏内Popularinside (a region, area, etc.); within the range (of); within the sphere (of influence, etc.)
- —首都圏PopularGreater Tokyo Metropolitan area; metropolitan area (of a capital)
- —成層圏Popularstratosphere
- —北極圏PopularArctic Circle; the Arctic
- —気圏atmosphere
- —大圏great circle
- —圏点emphasis mark (used in Japanese text in a way similar to underlining)
- —商圏business region; marketing area; commercial sphere; trading area; region in which a business operates
- —圏域sphere (e.g. of knowledge, influence)
- —圏論category theory
- —圏谷cirque; corrie; cwm
- —岩圏lithosphere
- —水圏hydrosphere
- —熱圏thermosphere
- —時圏hour circle; circle of declination
- —根圏rhizosphere
- —極圏polar circle; polar region
- —周圏surroundings; vicinity; periphery