遍 (biàn)

all over; measure word for actions (one time through)

How 遍 is written

Strokes
12
Radical
辶 — walk
Traditional
遍
Simplified
遍 (unchanged)

Components

  • 辶 walk
  • 户 door/house
  • 冂 upside down box
  • 艹 grass

Common words using 遍

普遍 pǔbiàn
universal; general; widespread
遍地 biàndì
everywhere; all over
遍布 biànbù
to cover the whole (area); to be found throughout
遍體鱗傷 biàntǐlínshāng
covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue; be a mass of bruises
一遍 yībiàn
one time (all the way through); once through
傳遍 chuánbiàn
to spread widely
哀鴻遍野 āihóngbiànyě
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims; starving people fill the land
找遍 zhǎobiàn
to search everywhere; to search high and low; to comb
普遍化 pǔbiànhuà
generalization (logic)
普遍性 pǔbiànxìng
ubiquity; universality
滿山遍野 mǎnshānbiànyě
covering the whole land; over hills and dales
漫天遍野 màntiānbiànyě
lit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land; everywhere; as far as the eye can see

遍 in a sentence

請再說一遍。

Qǐng zài shuō yí biàn.

“Please say it one more time.”

How common is 遍?

遍 is the 1,010th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.3% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 遍

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