noun
General and philosophical use. In philosophy, it refers to fundamental categories of thought or being, such as Aristotle's categories or Kant's categories of understanding.
この問題は別の範疇に入る。
This problem falls into a different category.
カントは12の範疇を提唱した。
Kant proposed twelve categories.
From Chinese 範疇 (fànchóu), originally a translation of Greek katēgoria in philosophical contexts. The kanji 範 means 'pattern' or 'model', and 疇 means 'class' or 'category'.