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圏

Range
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingケン
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8Level 39

Meanings

  1. range
  2. circle
  3. radius
  4. sphereRtK
  1. area
  2. zone

Radicals and components

Radical囗enclosure
Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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pent in (囗) · scroll · quarter · snake (乙) · self (自)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1293

Compound words

圏外けんがい
outside (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
圏内けんない
inside (a region, area, etc.); within the range (of); within the sphere (of influence, etc.)
首都圏しゅとけん
Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area; metropolitan area (of a capital)
成層圏せいそうけん
stratosphere
北極圏ほっきょくけん
Arctic Circle; the Arctic
気圏きけん
atmosphere
ソ連圏ソれんけん
Soviet bloc
岩石圏がんせきけん
lithosphere
共栄圏きょうえいけん
co-prosperity sphere
共産圏きょうさんけん
communist bloc
近畿圏きんきけん
wider Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Shiga, Wakayama and Fukui prefectures)
勢力圏せいりょくけん
sphere of influence
生活圏せいかつけん
living area/range
生存圏せいぞんけん
Lebensraum
亜成層圏あせいそうけん
substratosphere
漢字文化圏かんじぶんかけん
Chinese-character cultural sphere
大東亜共栄圏だいとうあきょうえいけん
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Additional Examples

私達は異なった文化圏の人々と接触を持たないわけにはいかない。
We cannot avoid contact with people from different cultural backgrounds.tatoeba
首都圏でも燃料が不足している。
There's a fuel shortage even in the Tokyo area.tatoeba
ロケットは大気圏外へ飛んでいった。
The rocket blasted out of the atmosphere.tatoeba
デジネフ岬は北極圏の南３０マイルにある。
Cape Dezhnev is 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle.tatoeba

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Sphere, zone. Enclosure 囗 + 巻 (rolled into a circle) — a drawn circle that takes things in.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 圏

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step