遍 (biàn): everywhere
遍 (biàn) is a Chinese character meaning “everywhere.” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 辶 (semantic) and 扁 (phonetic). It ranks #1011 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 遍 walk. Its radical form 辶 (walk) appears in many related characters such as 边 (biān, side), 过 (guò, to pass, past), 还 (hái, still, return).
Definitions
- everywhere
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 遍
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 遍布verb | biàn bù | to cover the whole (area) |
| 传遍 | chuán biàn | to spread widely |
| 遍及verb | biàn jí | to extend (everywhere) |
| 跑遍 | pǎo biàn | to go everywhere |
| 遍体鳞伤phrase | biàn tǐ lín shāng | (idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises |
| 普遍性noun | pǔ biàn xìng | ubiquity |
| 漫山遍野phrase | màn shān biàn yě | lit. covering the mountains and the plains (idiom) |
| 遍地开花verb | biàn dì kāi huā | (idiom) to blossom everywhere |
| 满山遍野 | mǎn shān biàn yě | covering the whole land |
| 一遍又一遍 | yī biàn yòu yī biàn | over and over |
| 一遍noun | yī biàn | one time (all the way through) |
| 普遍性假设 | pǔ biàn xìng jiǎ shè | universal hypothesis |
| 遍身 | biàn shēn | over the whole body |
| 遍体 | biàn tǐ | all over the body |
| 二遍苦 | èr biàn kǔ | second persecution |
遍 appears in 30 compound words: 27 as the first character, 27 as the last, and 47 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 遍 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (7)
a land of wailing and despair; land swarming with disaster victims; disaster victims moaning everywhere
lit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land; everywhere; as far as the eye can see
Example Sentences
这个问题已经讨论过很多遍了，还是没有一个明确的结论。
Zhè gè wèntí yǐjīng tǎolùn guò hěn duō biàn le, háishì méiyǒu yí gè míngquè de jiélùn.
This issue has been discussed many times, but there is still no clear conclusion.
赤潮过后 南非海滩遍布死龙虾
chì cháo guò hòu nán fēi hǎi tān biàn bù sǐ lóng xiā
After the red tide South African beaches are full of dead lobsters
人脉遍布微软高层 艾普斯坦“藉此打进科技界名流...
rén mài biàn bù wēi ruǎn gāo céng ài pǔ sī tǎn 藉 cǐ dǎ jìn kē jì jiè míng liú . . .
Contacts are all over Microsoft's top management Epstein "used this to break into the tech world's celebrities...
...甩一下是文化习惯还是生理现象?全球男性普遍如此吗
. . . shuǎi yī xià shì wén huà xí guàn hái shì shēng lǐ xiàn xiàng ? quán qiú nán xìng pǔ biàn rú cǐ ma
Is shaking it off a cultural habit or a physiological phenomenon? Is this common among men worldwide?
...動 | AI衝擊波捲土重來 應用軟件股普遍下挫 聚水潭(06687)跌超9%
. . . 動 衝 擊 bō 捲 tǔ chóng 來 應 yòng 軟 jiàn gǔ pǔ biàn xià cuò jù shuǐ tán diē chāo
... Market | AI Shockwaves Resurge, Application Software Stocks Broadly Decline Jusuitan (06687) Plunges Over 9%
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你是不是喝醉到能再说一遍德语的程度？
Nǐ shìbùshì hēzuì dào néng zàishuō yībiàn Déyǔ de chéngdù?
Are you drunk enough to speak German once again?
您可以给我重新做一遍吗？
Nín kěyǐ gěi wǒ chóngxīn zuò yībiàn ma?
Can you re-do it for me?
你能再向我解释一遍你为什么迟到了吗？
Nǐ néng zài xiàng wǒ jiěshì yībiàn nǐ wèishénme chídào le ma?
Could you please tell me again why you are late?
对不起，我听不懂。你能慢点儿再说一遍吗？
Duìbuqǐ, wǒ tīngbudǒng. nǐ néng màn diǎnr zàishuō yībiàn ma?
I'm sorry, I do not understand. Can you repeat it a little slower?
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 辶 (walk) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is 遍 the same in simplified and traditional Chinese?
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