Hanja Analyzer
偏

偏 — pyeon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
치우칠 편
Romanization
pyeon
English
inclined one side; slanting
Mandarin
piān
Japanese on'yomi
ヘン
Japanese kun'yomi
かたよ.る
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,340 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Radical
人 (9, 9 residual)
Phonetic component
扁(편)
Unicode
U+504F

Parts that make up 偏

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 扁 작을 편, 현판 변sound 문에 걸어 놓은 널납작한 것. ‘편’ 계열의 소리

How 偏 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 偏 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 扁.

Korean example words with 偏

  • 편문偏門 Korean gloss: 정문에 딸린 옆문
  • 편론偏論 Korean gloss: 남이나 다른 당을 논하여 비난함
  • 편견偏見 Korean gloss: 공정하지 못하고 한쪽으로 치우친 생각
  • 편장偏長 Korean gloss: 당파의 어른. 또는 각 편의 우두머리
  • 편당偏黨 Korean gloss: 한 당파에 치우침. 또는 한 편의 당파
  • 편식偏食 Korean gloss: 어떤 특정한 음식만을 가려서 즐겨 먹음
  • 편모偏母 Korean gloss: 아버지가 죽거나 이혼하여 홀로 있는 어머니
  • 편부偏父 Korean gloss: 어머니가 죽거나 이혼하여 홀로 있는 아버지
  • 편애偏愛 Korean gloss: 어느 한 사람이나 한쪽만을 치우치게 사랑함
  • 편파偏頗 Korean gloss: 공정하지 못하고 어느 한쪽으로 치우쳐 있음
  • 반편半偏 Korean gloss: 지능이 보통 사람보다 모자라는 사람을 낮잡아 이르는 말
  • 편재하다偏在 Korean gloss: 한곳에 치우쳐 있다

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 偏

  • 偏差値へんさち deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score
  • 偏見へんけん prejudice; bias; distorted view
  • 偏重へんちょう attaching too much importance to; placing disproportionate emphasis on; making too much of
  • 偏りかたより deviation; inclination; offset
  • 偏向へんこう propensity; tendency; inclination
  • 不偏不党ふへんふとう impartiality; neutrality; independence
  • 偏西風へんせいふう westerlies; prevailing westerlies
  • 偏るかたよる to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet)
  • 偏狭へんきょう narrow-mindedness; intolerance; illiberality
  • 偏食へんしょく unbalanced diet
  • 偏へん left-hand radical of a character
  • 不偏ふへん impartiality; neutrality; fairness

Characters sharing the phonetic 扁

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “편” in Korean.

Other hanja read “편”

Other hanja with radical 人

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