周辺 (しゅうへん, shuuhen) Japanese meaning: area around | Kotomora辺
に
は
たくさん
の
店
が
ある
。
There are many shops around the station.
We need to investigate the periphery of this issue.
Usage patterns
〈場所〉の周辺the area around 〈場所〉
There are lots of shops around the station.
周辺機器を接続するto connect peripheral devices
I connected the peripheral devices to my new computer.
〈場所〉を周辺around 〈場所〉 (used as a suffix, e.g. 三時周辺 'around 3 o'clock')
The meeting is scheduled to start around 3 o'clock.
〈事〉の周辺を調べるto look into the circumstances surrounding 〈事〉
We decided to look closely into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
N4
周辺 is a more formal word for the periphery or outskirts of a place, whereas 辺り is casual and can refer to any general area.
周辺 is a neutral, purely geographic term for the surrounding area, whereas 界隈 often carries a sense of the area's atmosphere or the people found there.
境
surrounding environment; ambient surroundings; one's surroundings
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fringe science
endpoint node; peripheral node
peripheral device; peripheral equipment
peripheral vision
peripheral vision; peripheral visual field
