~圏

~けん · ~ken · JLPT N2 · noun

area

🌐 Sounds like ken, as in beyond my ken: the sphere you know

The kanji is 囗 (an enclosure) wrapped around 巻 (to roll up), so it means a ring drawn around an area. As a suffix it marks a zone: 首都圏 (shutoken) is the capital area, and 英語圏 (eigoken) is the English-speaking world.

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