Freq. Frequency Top 100,000 Kanji 辺 environs, boundary, border 鄙 lowly, the country, the countryside Related words 不ふ 便べん 不便 means 'inconvenient' in a general sense, while 辺鄙 specifically refers to a location being remote and hard to reach.
田舎いなか 田舎 means 'countryside' or 'rural area' and can be neutral or positive, whereas 辺鄙 emphasizes inaccessibility and isolation.
Written forms 辺へん 鄙ぴ Usage 72%
へんぴ Usage 25%
辺へん ぴ Usage 3%
search-only kanji form
Search-only variant; 鄙 is a non-jōyō kanji sometimes replaced by kana.
Etymology Compound of 辺 (へん , 'area, vicinity') and 鄙 (ひ , 'rustic, rural'), with rendaku voicing to ぴ . The kanji 鄙 is non-jōyō, so the word is sometimes written as 辺ぴ .
Report an issue with this page
Copyright © 2026 Kotomora. All Rights Reserved.