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辺

Area
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingヘン
Kun readingあた.り、べ
JLPT level: N2JōyōGrade 4Level 7

Meanings

  1. area
  2. border
  3. boundary
  4. environsRtK
  5. vicinity
  1. region
  2. side
  3. edge

Homonyms

ⓘ
Same reading (へん)
変 · strange編 · compilation (of a text)

Popular Usage

辺り周辺

Radicals and components

Radical辵walk
Components
How it's built
辺
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Mnemonic (RtK)

ⓘ

dagger (刀) · sword (刀) · road (辶)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 302

Compound words

辺りあたり
(in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearby; surroundings
周辺しゅうへん
circumference; outskirts; environs; around; in the area of
海辺うみべ
beach; seashore; seaside; coast
岸辺きしべ
shore; bank (of a body of water)
近辺きんぺん
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
身辺しんぺん
one's person; around one's person
天辺てっぺん
top; summit; apex; peak; twelve o'clock (usu. midnight)
浜辺はまべ
beach; foreshore
辺境へんきょう
remote region; outlying district; border district; frontier
辺地へんち
remote place
水辺みずべ
water's edge; waterside; shore
底辺ていへん
base (of a polygon); bottom (of the social scale); lower levels; lower classes; base (e.g. of support)
この辺このへん
this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent
一辺倒いっぺんとう
complete devotion (to); total commitment (to); unvarying support (for); unwavering fixation (on); rigid preoccupation (with)
どの辺どのへん
whereabouts; what part; how much; what point
その辺そのへん
around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter
そこら辺そこらへん
hereabouts; around there; that area
磯辺いそべ
seashore
右辺うへん
right side (of an equation, expression, etc.)
浦辺うらべ
seacoast
丘辺おかべ
vicinity of a hill
奈辺なへん
where
那辺なへん
where
辺ぴへんぴ
hard to reach place

On Reading Examples

正方形は４つの同じ長さの辺をもつ。へん
A square has four equal sides.tatoeba
正方形には四つの辺がある。へん
A square has four sides.tatoeba
どの辺に脂肪がついているの？へん
Where is the fat located?tatoeba

Kun Reading Examples

彼は辺りを見回したが誰もいなかった。あたり
He looked around, but he saw no one.tatoeba
彼は部屋の中で立ち上がって辺りを見回した。あたり
He stood up in the room and looked around.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は保守党一辺倒で押し通した。
He has remained pro-conservative throughout.tatoeba
彼は辺りを見回したが誰もいなかった。
He looked around, but he saw no one.tatoeba
彼は部屋の中で立ち上がって辺りを見回した。
He stood up in the room and looked around.tatoeba
彼は浜辺へ行き、海上はるか彼方の水平線を眺めた。
He went to the beach, and looked far across the sea toward the horizon.tatoeba

Stroke Order

5 strokes

Area, edge. ⻌ (movement) + 刀 — walking around the edge of a place.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 辺

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step