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普遍

pǔ biàn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

普遍 (pǔ biàn) means "universal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 普遍 means

1. universal
2. general
3. widespread
4. common

The characters in 普遍

• 普pǔgeneral; popular; everywhere
• 遍biàneverywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time

Example sentences

• 日本人普遍很内敛。
  Rìběnrén pǔbiàn hěn nèiliǎn.
  Japanese people are generally very reserved.
• 地震后人们普遍觉得恐慌。
  Dìzhèn hòu rénmen pǔbiàn juéde kǒnghuāng.
  There was widespread panic after the earthquake.
• 学术造假比你想象的普遍。
  Xuéshù zàojiǎ bǐ nǐ xiǎngxiàng de pǔbiàn.
  Academic fraud is more common than you might think.
• 夫妻分担家务的情况愈来愈普遍。
  Fūqī fēndān jiāwù de qíngkuàng yù lái yù pǔbiàn.
  More and more married couples share household chores.
• 我们国家的年轻人对政治普遍不感兴趣。
  Wǒmen guójiā de niánqīngrén duì zhèngzhì pǔbiàn bù gǎnxìngqù.
  The youth of our land are not interested in politics.
• 人们普遍认为悬挂式滑翔运动时危险的。
  Rénmen pǔbiàn rènwéi xuánguàshìhuáxiáng yùndòng shí wēixiǎn de.
  There is a tendency for people to think that hang gliding is dangerous.

Words starting with 普遍

• 普遍性pǔ biàn xìngubiquity; universality
• 普遍化pǔ biàn huàgeneralization (logic)
• 普遍性假设pǔ biàn xìng jiǎ shèuniversal hypothesis

Where 普遍 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Formal register words (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pǔ biàn correctly.
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