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

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. sphere, area, region

Readings

• Goon: こん (kon) (non-Jōyō reading), ごん (gon) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: けん (ken)
• Kun: かこ.い (圏い, kako.i) (non-Jōyō reading)

Etymology

/kwen/ → /ken/

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

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Kan'on
• (Tokyo) け​ん [kéꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

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

1. a bounded area, a sphere, a region

   首都 (しゅと)圏 (けん)

   shutoken

   the capital area → the Tokyo metropolitan region

   英語 (えいご)圏 (けん)

   eigoken

   the English [language] area → the Anglophone world, the Anglosphere

   この圏 (けん)の構成 (こうせい)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 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

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

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