郊外

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 郊外 is a noun read こうがい, meaning the suburbs or outskirts away from a city's center.
• Basic usage: It can locate a park in the suburbs or the place on a town's outskirts where vegetables are grown.
  • 週末に郊外の大きな公園を訪れた。 says that a large park in the suburbs was visited over the weekend; 叔父は町の郊外で野菜を育てている。 says that the speaker's uncle grows vegetables on the outskirts of town.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 郊外の公園
  • の links the large park to its suburban location.
• 郊外で育てる
  • で marks the outskirts as the place where the vegetables are grown.
• 郊外 and 都心
  • 郊外 is an outlying urban area, while 都心 is the central part of a major city.