biàn

everywhere

Variant of .

Evolution

徧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
徧 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
徧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
徧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

biàn

everywhere, all over, all around

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biàn

variant of [biàn]

Most common words with 徧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

everywhere

普遍

universal

遍布

to cover the whole (area)

遍地

everywhere

遍及

to extend (everywhere)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤe[n]-s

penH

biàn

(go) all around


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 44.9143% of movies

1021st most common character in movies

1012th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5FA7

Shuowen

“徧,帀也。从彳,扁聲。”


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