まわ
Meanings
Noun
1. circumference; girth
2. surroundings; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
3. people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
Kanji used
circumference
Pitch accent
わり
Top 800
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
how others look at you; what others think about you
part of a building where water is circulated (kitchen, bathroom, etc.); wet area
Examples (47 in total)
I looked around me.
He looked around.
A crowd gathered around.
He looked about the house.
People gathered around us.
They clustered around the fire.
The dog is walking around the table.
The earth moves around the sun.
The children were gathering around.
A fence runs around the house.
They gathered about the fireplace.
Unfortunately, there was no one around.
Planets move around a fixed star.
The satellite is in orbit around the moon.
We sat around the fire.
A crowd of people gathered around the speaker.
There are a lot of trees around the pond.
The moon goes round the earth once a month.
The people gathered around a round table.
The old man stopped suddenly and looked round.
A crowd soon gathered around him.
There's a lot of plastic bottles littered around vending machines.
He had great influence on those around him.
The house had a stone wall around it.
A crowd was gathering around him.
Lots of butterflies are flying around the plants.
There is a fence around the house.
So there is a magnetic field around earth.
The people standing around were all strangers.
We sat around the fire in a circle.
We believed that the earth moves round the sun.
It's noisy around here, so speak a little louder.
When we're children, everything around us looks so big.
They sat around the table playing cards.
He may be jogging around the park.
We sang around the fire when it got dark.
Compared to those around him, he looked really happy.
Everyone around the area works hard.
That boy likes to walk around the soap shop.
Nobody I know has been to Australia.
The people standing around were amused and laughed at the brave little dog.
We cut away all the grass and weeds around the church.
Tom and Mary are going to build a wall around their house.
The moon moves around the earth.
The earth moves around the sun in 365 days.
It goes around the sun in 365 days.
Copernicus proposed the idea that the Earth travels around the Sun.