囲

Meaning

囲 centers on forming a boundary around something: surrounding, encircling, or enclosing. The ideas of storing, preserving, or keeping something safe follow naturally from enclosing it within a protective space.

• 雰囲気ふんいき
  N3

  atmosphere; mood; ambience; ambiance; aura; feel

• 範囲はんい
  N3

  extent; scope; sphere; range; span

• 周囲しゅうい
  N3

  surroundings; environs

• 囲むかこむ
  N3

  to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fence; to wall in

• 包囲ほうい
  N1

  siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement

• 広範囲こうはんい

  extensive; vast range; wide scope

• 囲碁いご
  N1

  go (board game)

• 囲いかこい
  N1

  enclosure; fence; wall; pen; paling

• 囲うかこう
  N1

  to enclose; to surround; to encircle; to fence; to wall in

• 囲みかこみ

  enclosure; box

• 取り囲むとりかこむ
  N1

  to surround; to crowd around; to gather around; to encircle; to besiege

• 囲い込みかこいこみ

  enclosure; coralling; penning

• 胸囲きょうい

  chest measurement

• 囲炉裏いろり

  sunken hearth; sunken fireplace

• 攻囲こうい

  siege

• ＡＢＣＤ包囲網エービーシーディーほういもう

  ABCD encirclement (embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940)

• ＡＢＣＤ包囲陣エービーシーディーほういじん

  ABCD encirclement (embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940)

• タイコンデロガ砦包囲戦タイコンデロガとりでほういせん

  Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)

• ポン抜き囲碁ポンぬきいご

  ponnuki go; first-capture go; atari go; go variant where whoever first captures one or more stones wins

• 交際範囲こうさいはんい

  circle of acquaintance

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