Kanji
N2 5 strokes Grade 4 freq #428

environs, boundary, border, vicinity

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

walk shinnyō

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

circumference; outskirts
area; vicinity
complete devotion (to); total commitment (to)
beach; seashore
one's person; around one's person
base (of a polygon)
water's edge; waterside
beach; foreshore
remote region; outlying district
shore; bank (of a body of water)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

(in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood
this area; around here
whereabouts; what part

Example sentences

The second is the affinity with environment. By utilizing natural energy and reducing wastes, we have to make houses which harmonize with ecology.

After one or two large factories have been built in or near a town, people come to find work, and soon an industrial area begins to develop.

John has no friends here.

Is there a hotel around here?