徧
biàn
everywhere
Variant of 遍.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Most common words with 徧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
everywhere | ||
universal | ||
to cover the whole (area) | ||
everywhere | ||
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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