Illustration: At a Japanese elementary school activity table, a child carefully fits a cord around the outside rim of a large circular wooden disk lying flat. One classmate pins the starting end with a fingertip while the first child brings the other end around to meet it, completing the full boundary.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

円えん周しゅう

enshuu

circumference

Example sentences

  1. 円周えんしゅうから直径ちょっけいを求もとめることは可能かのうですか？

    Is it possible to determine the diameter from the circumference?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 円周えんしゅうの長ながさの求もとめ方かたってどうでしたっけ？忘わすれました。

    How do you derive the length of the circumference? I’ve forgotten.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 神かみは無限むげんの球きゅうである。その中心ちゅうしんは到いたるところにあり、その円周えんしゅうはどこにもない。

    God is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 円周

  • 円circle; yenOnエンKunまるい・まる・まど
  • 周circumference; circuitOnシュウKunまわり

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