圏

See also: 圈
圏 U+570F, 圏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-570F
← 圎
[U+570E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 圐 →
[U+5710]

Translingual

Han character

圏 (radical 31 囗+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田火手山 (WFQU) or X田火手山 (XWFQU), composition ⿴囗巻)

  1. to circle
  2. a circle
  3. corral

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 220, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4815
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 722, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+570F

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 圏 – see 圈 (“pen; sty; fold; state; city; etc.”).
(This character, 圏, is a variant form of 圈.)

Japanese

Shinjitai

 圏

Kyūjitai

 圈

Kanji

圏

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 圈)

  1. sphere, area, region

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
圏
けん
Grade: S
on’yomi

/kwen/ → /ken/

From Middle Chinese 圏 (kyuen?, “to circle something; a corral”).

Pronunciation

Noun

圏 (hiragana けん, rōmaji ken, historical hiragana くゑん)

  1. a bounded area, a sphere, a region
    首 (しゅ)都 (と)圏 (けん)
    shutoken
    the capital area → the Tokyo metropolitan region
    英 (えい)語 (ご)圏 (けん)
    eigoken
    the English [language] area → the Anglophone world, the Anglosphere
    この圏 (けん)の構 (こう)成 (せい)は…
    Kono ken no kōsei wa …
    The composition of this region… (mathematics)

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

圏 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn)

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