Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

偏: partial, side

Also: left-side radical, inclining, biased

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 扁 gives the sound

11 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ヘンhen · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 偏へんradical on the left side of kanji
  • 偏見へんけんprejudice, narrow view
  • 偏食へんしょくunbalanced diet
  • 偏頭痛へんずつうmigraine headache
  • 偏差値へんさちdeviation value
  • 偏屈なへんくつなnarrow-minded, perverse
  • 偏狭なへんきょうなnarrow-minded, intolerant
  • 偏重するへんちょうするoveremphasize
  • 偏愛するへんあいするbe partial, show favoritism

かたよるkatayoru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 偏るかたよるincline towards, be biased

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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扁

Also built on 扁

偏 takes the 扁 family's reading, ヘン (hen).

Also read ヘン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
偏 partial · 亻
vs遍 everywhere · ⻌
偏 has 亻 where 遍 has ⻌.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · piān

Same form: 偏 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
偏 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
偏 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin piān most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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