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Kotomora

遍

everywhere, times, widely, generally

JLPTN1StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 2,000Strokes12

Readings

On'yomi

  • ヘン

Kun'yomi

  • あまね.く

Meaning

遍 centers on the idea of something spreading or occurring across a wide area or many instances: everywhere, widely, generally, or a number of times.

Most common words using 遍

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  • 遍羅べら

    wrasse (any fish of family Labridae)

  • 普遍ふへん
    N1

    universal; general; ubiquitous; omnipresent

  • 遍へん

    number of times

  • 一遍いっぺん

    once; one time

  • 遍歴へんれき

    travels; pilgrimage; itinerancy

  • 遍路へんろ

    pilgrimage

  • 一遍にいっぺんに
    N3

    (all) at once; at the same time; in one go; in one sitting

  • 満遍なくまんべんなく

    equally; thoroughly; all over; uniformly; without exception; all around

  • 遍くあまねく

    widely; extensively; far and wide; everywhere; all around; generally; universally

  • 遍在へんざい

    omnipresence; ubiquity

  • 普遍的ふへんてき

    universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous

  • 何遍なんべん
    N1

    how many times; how often

  • もう一遍もういっぺん

    once more; again

  • 三遍回って煙草にしょさんべんまわってタバコにしょ

    measure twice and cut once; don't slack off until the job's done properly; go around three times before you take a smoke

  • 何遍もなんべんも

    repeatedly; several times; many times

  • 四国遍路しこくへんろ

    Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim

  • 女性遍歴じょせいへんれき

    one's history of love affairs with women

  • 恋愛遍歴れんあいへんれき

    history of one's love affairs

  • 普遍代数ふへんだいすう

    universal algebra

  • 普遍分類体系ふへんぶんるいたいけい

    universal classification system; general classification system

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Etymology

遍 combines 辶 (movement) with 扁, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of flatness or spreading out, together suggesting moving everywhere or covering widely.

Meaning mnemonic

The movement radical 辶 wraps around 扁, like a flat object being carried everywhere. Imagine a flat map being walked around until it covers every place.

Reading mnemonic

For ヘン, picture a hen wandering everywhere in the yard: hen -> ヘン, and the hen goes widely around the farm.