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biàn

HSK 2freq #1358

Meanings

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biàn

1.variant of 遍[biàn]

biàn

1.everywhere
2.all over
3.classifier for actions: one time

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Wiktionary

1.to be everywhere; to be spread out; to lay out
2.common; widespread; universal; pervasive; general; ubiquitous
3.Classifier for occurrences of events.
4.pass, a run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

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Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p-(r/j)an (“to spread (wide), stretch out”); compare Burmese ပြန့် (pran., “flat and even, broad”) (STEDT).

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Stroke order

Components

遍辶扁

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

這本書值得讀兩遍。
This book is worth reading twice.
我們遊遍全國各地。
We traveled all over the country.
他去世的消息傳遍各地。
The news of his death spread around.

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More examples & usage (AI)

Synonyms

共通廣广廣泛广泛普通普遍泛泛濫泛滥流行布滿布满

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Related words

普遍 universal 遍布 to cover the whole (area)遍地 everywhere 遍及 to extend (everywhere)遍身 over the whole body 跑遍 to go everywhere 响遍 to resound (all over the place)翻遍 to rummage through 找遍 to search everywhere 遍体 all over the body 遍历 to traverse 玩遍 to visit (a large number of places)