Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

遍: everywhere, times

Also: widely, generally

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 扁 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ヘンhen · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 普遍ふへんuniversal; general; ubiquitous
  • 何遍なんべんhow many times; how often
  • 普遍的ふへんてき
  • 一遍にいっぺんに(all) at once; at the same time; in one go
  • 遍歴へんれき
  • 一遍いっぺんonce; one time

Also read あまねく, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扁

Also built on 扁

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

⻌

Also built on road (⻌)

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Also read ヘン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

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

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

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

Pinyin biàn 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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