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Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N2

346 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: boundary, border, region

Kunyomi: さかい

Onyomi: キョウ, ケイ

Composition: 土 竟

境

Radical

Radical: 土

Reading: つちへん

Meaning: earth

Strokes: 3

Reading: つちへん

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Examples

Examples with audio

境界(きょうかい)   boundary

境遇(きょうぐう)   environment, circumstances

国境(こっきょう)   national or state border

辺境(へんきょう)   remote region

環境(かんきょう)   environment, circumstance

心境(しんきょう)   mental state

逆境(ぎゃっきょう)   adversity

苦境(くきょう)   trouble, crisis, predicament

境内(けいだい)   temple/shrine's precincts

境(さかい)   border, boundary

県境(けんざかい)   prefectural border/boundary

見境なく(みさかいなく)   indiscriminately

Onyomi Examples

境 (サカイ) border, boundary, turning point, watershed, area, region, spot, space, environment, psychological state, mental state, cognitive object, something perceptible by the sense organs or mind

境界 (キョウカイ) boundary, border, limit, bounds, frontier

越境 (エッキョウ) crossing a border (illegally), border violation, border transgression

推奨環境 (スイショウカンキョウ) system requirements (i.e. recommended hardware and software to run a package)

境内 (ケイダイ) grounds (esp. of shrines and temples), compound, churchyard, precincts

境界 (ケイカイ) land boundary, border (between properties)

Kunyomi Examples

境 (さかい) border, boundary, turning point, watershed, area, region, spot, space, environment, psychological state, mental state, cognitive object, something perceptible by the sense organs or mind

境目 (さかいめ) borderline, boundary

生死の境 (せいしのさかい) between life and death

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