Hanja Analyzer
遍

遍 — pyeon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
두루 편
Romanization
pyeon
English
everywhere, all over, throughout
Mandarin
biàn
Japanese on'yomi
ヘン
Japanese kun'yomi
あまね.く
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,845 of 2,500
Strokes
12
Radical
辵 (162, 9 residual)
Phonetic component
扁(편)
Unicode
U+904D

Parts that make up 遍

  • 扁 작을 편, 현판 변sound 문에 걸어 놓은 널납작한 것. ‘편’ 계열의 소리
  • ⻌ variant of 辶 네거리와 발가고 오는 일, 길 위의 움직임

How 遍 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 遍 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辵, 扁.

Korean example words with 遍

  • 편만하다遍滿 Korean gloss: 널리 그득 차다
  • 보편하다普遍 Korean gloss: 두루 널리 미치다
  • 편답하다遍踏 Korean gloss: 이곳저곳을 널리 돌아다니다
  • 편력하다遍歷 Korean gloss: 이곳저곳을 널리 돌아다니다
  • 보편어普遍語 Korean gloss: 두루 널리 쓰이는 언어
  • 보편화普遍化 Korean gloss: 널리 일반인에게 퍼짐. 또는 그렇게 되게 함
  • 보편사普遍史 Korean gloss: 시대와 지역을 아우르는 보편적인 역사. 또는 그것을 연구하는 학문
  • 보편자普遍者 Korean gloss: 개별 사물들이 공통적으로 지니고 있는 본질적 특성을 이르는 말. 서양 철학사에서는 학자마다 이에 대한 개념 이해를 달리하였으며
  • 편포遍布 Korean gloss: 널리 폄.
  • 편독遍讀 Korean gloss: 두루 읽음.
  • 편재遍在 Korean gloss: 널리 퍼져 있음.
  • 편담遍談 Korean gloss: 널리 빠짐없이 말함.

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

Japanese words with 遍

  • 普遍ふへん universal; general; ubiquitous
  • 普遍的ふへんてき universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous
  • 遍歴へんれき travels; pilgrimage; itinerancy
  • 一遍いっぺん once; one time; exclusively
  • 何遍なんべん how many times; how often
  • 一遍にいっぺんに (all) at once; at the same time; in one go
  • 遍へん counter for occurrences
  • 遍くあまねく widely; extensively; far and wide
  • 遍在へんざい omnipresence; ubiquity
  • 遍路へんろ pilgrimage; pilgrim
  • 遍羅べら wrasse (any fish of family Labridae)
  • 遍照へんじょう universal illumination (esp. in Buddhism, by the dharma-body)

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 辵

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences