Illustration: Two neighboring garden plots meet at a straight row of low boundary stones. On one side, an older gardener tends neat rows of cabbages; on the other, a younger neighbor waters a densely planted flower bed. Their different soil surfaces stop cleanly at the same stone line.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

境さかい

sakai

border, boundary

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは生死せいしの境さかいをさ迷まよった。

    He hovered between life and death.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 隣となりの家いえとの境さかいを示しめす柵さくがある。

    There is a fence marking the boundary between our yard and the neighbor’s.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ドイツはフランスと境さかいを接せっしている。

    Germany borders on France.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 境

  • 境boundary; borderOnキョウ・ケイKunさかい

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