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24 Dec 2018
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What is the difference between 境目 さかいめ and 境界 きょうかい ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 境目 さかいめ and 境界 きょうかい ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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24 Dec 2018
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They are very similar, but there's a bit difference.
境界 is a borderline ON a thing. Usually it is a border which divides a thing into two or more.
境目 is a border BETWEEN two things. It tends to be used for a border to connect two or more things.
e.g.
土地の境界に白い線を引いた。
ブロックとブロックの境目に草が生えた。
And 境目 tends to be used as a single word while 境界 tends to be used in compound words, such as 境界線 or 管理境界.
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I suppose they are same in common use.
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They are very similar, but there's a bit difference.
境界 is a borderline ON a thing. Usually it is a border which divides a thing into two or more.
境目 is a border BETWEEN two things. It tends to be used for a border to connect two or more things.
e.g.
土地の境界に白い線を引いた。
ブロックとブロックの境目に草が生えた。
And 境目 tends to be used as a single word while 境界 tends to be used in compound words, such as 境界線 or 管理境界.
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@mfuji do you mind explaining it with picture?
- Japanese
@Crocuta Hmm... Here are some pictures from the Web.
【境目】
a border between cloudy and sunny
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/13559644/
a discuss about the border between 東日本 and 西日本
http://sun3ene.blog44.fc2.com/blog-entry-246.html
the border between 津軽藩 and 南部藩 (藩 is a governmental unit in Edo era)
http://www6.pref.aomori.lg.jp/p-view/informatio...
【境界】
a discuss about a border between 原宿 and 表参道
(the borderline is vague)
https://www.fashionsnap.com/article/border-hara...
an explanation about 道路境界 which divides a land between roads and private areas.
http://www.city.ichikawa.lg.jp/roa02/1111000049...
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I'm sorry Crocuta. I did huge mistake at last. so I deleted it.
let me try again please. I'm sorry for bother you.
境界 is an idea. it is invisible.
境目 is a outline or a sign which show you 境 = 境界
境界線 is same as 境目. landmark, line of stones, fence, paint, etc... or a certain number / degree.
境界点 is dot of 境界.
境界面 is surface of 境界.
境 is more commonly and spoken-ish.
目(in here) means line, point.
境界 sounds more technical-ish. it is closer philosophy, law, physics, mathematics, or business.
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@bantam don't worry, you've been of great help! the main idea is that 境界=境 <--both are ideas, invisible things (imaginary lines written on maps). 目and 線 here mean the same (line, a visible thing). So if you add the same elements (線=目) to two things that mean the same (境界=境) you'll obtain two words that mean the same 境界線=境目 <-- two visible things (fences, stones etc..).
what do you both think? @mfuji
what do you both think? @mfuji

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@Crocuta
I don't think so.
For example, 境目 can be used for a seam in a cloth, but neither 境界 nor 境界線 can't be used for it.
Similarly, 境界 nor 境界線 can't be used for a border of struta.
In other hand, 境界(線) is only used for a military demarcation line, but 境目 can't be used for it.
So, 境界 is same to 境, but 目 is differeent from 線.
目 is a border between different two thing and it connects (seams) them.
線 is a line which divides an object into two or more parts.
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