境
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boundary
On-Yomi: キョウ、ケイ — Kun-Yomi: さかい
Koohii stories:
1) [nyquil] 13-3-2007(195): In the dense cities of Japan even a small garden is a luxury. In this house, the owner has put mirrors on the boundary of his land so it feels much bigger.
2) [brose] 16-12-2006(108): This is an old trick to keep out migrants. You put a bunch of dirty mirrors on the boundary of your land and theirs. When they approach the boundary, what they see in the mirror is their own land and someone that looks like themselves, only dirtier, so they figure your country isn't any better than their own and they head back home.
3) [Danieru] 25-1-2008(33): Boundaries and borders (another meaning of this kanji) used to be protected by daggers and swords (see environs, frame 284); but today our lands are protected by one-way mirrors at airport customs with video cameras and interrogation rooms behind them.
4) [tstuhldreher] 6-6-2008(20): In Japan, you often see MIRRORS at intersections. That's because the walls that form the boundary of people's LAND make it hard to see around corners.
5) [Rujiel] 30-7-2009(19): Be aware the right-hand character 竟 really means "endpoint" or "finally"; it's commonly read "つい" (as in "ついに") and usually written in kana alone. A boundary represents a country's land's endpoint (awkward phrasing for order) .