圏

圏 (Kangxi radical 31, 囗+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田火手山 (WFQU) or 難田火手山 (XWFQU), four-corner 6071₇, composition ⿴囗巻)

• 圈 (Kyūjitai form of 圏)

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

Unorthodox variant of 圈 with bottom component of 卷 written 己 (jǐ) instead of 㔾 (xiān).

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00733-001

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

1. sphere; area; region

• Go-on: こん (kon); ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
• Kun: かこい (kakoi, 圏い)

/kwen/ → /ken/

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

• (Tokyo) け​ん [kéꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [kẽ̞ɴ]

圏(けん) • (ken) ^{←くゑん (kwen)?}

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)

2. (mathematics) category

• 圏論(けんろん) (kenron): (mathematics) category theory

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

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