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回廊 (かいろう, kairou) Japanese meaning: corridor | Kotomora
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ろう
を
静しず
か
に
歩ある
い
た
。
I walked quietly along the temple's cloister.
Sculptures are lined up in the museum's gallery.
Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 を 回かい 廊ろう が 囲かこ む for a corridor/cloister to enclose a place
A cloister encircles the courtyard.
回かい 廊ろう を 歩ある く to walk along a corridor/cloister
Tourists were walking along the old temple's cloister.
回かい 廊ろう が 続つづ く for a corridor/cloister to stretch on
Inside the palace, a long cloister stretched on.
Related words 廊下 is the everyday word for a plain indoor corridor, while 回廊 suggests a covered, often architecturally notable walkway that encircles a courtyard or garden.
通路 is a general passageway or aisle (e.g. in a train or theater), whereas 回廊 specifically evokes a covered, encircling gallery in temples or palaces.
Word family humanitarian corridor
corridor; land corridor
Written forms 回かい 廊ろう Usage 95%
Standard kanji spelling; high frequency in news and general use.
廻かい 廊ろう Usage 5%
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form; 廻 is an older variant of 回.
Etymology Compound of 回 (kai, 'to go around') and 廊 (rō, 'corridor'), referring to a corridor that encircles or connects spaces. The spelling 廻廊 uses the older variant 廻 for 回.
