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遍

biàn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character

遍 (biàn) means "everywhere; all over; classifier for actions (one time through)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 遍 means

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

How 遍 is used in grammar

遍 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Classifiers: 层、封、件、条、位 and Action Measures (HSK 2)
• Duration & Frequency Complements (HSK 3)
• Action measure words: 次/遍/趟/顿/场 (HSK 4)
• Frequency complement: V+次/遍/趟 (HSK 4)

The official HSK 3.0 grammar outline lists it at level 3, measure words (动量词).

Other readings

遍 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• biànvariant of {遍|biàn}

Example sentences

• 再做一遍。
  Do it again.
• 再读一遍。
  Read it once more.
• 请再说一遍。
  Say that again, please.
• 请再说一遍!
  Please say that again!
• 你能重复一遍吗？
  Could you please repeat that?
• 请跟我重复一遍。
  Please repeat after me.

Words starting with 遍

• 遍布biàn bùto cover the whole (area); to be found throughout
• 遍地biàn dìeverywhere; all over
• 遍及biàn jíto extend (everywhere)
• 遍体鳞伤biàn tǐ lín shāng(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
• 遍地开花biàn dì kāi huā(idiom) to blossom everywhere; to spring up all over the place…
• 遍历biàn lìto traverse; to travel throughout; (math) ergodic
• 遍身biàn shēnover the whole body
• 遍体biàn tǐall over the body

Words containing 遍

• 普遍pǔ biànuniversal; general; widespread
• 传遍chuán biànto spread widely
• 普遍性pǔ biàn xìngubiquity; universality
• 跑遍pǎo biànto go everywhere; to scour (the whole town)
• 找遍zhǎo biànto search everywhere; to search high and low; to comb
• 翻遍fān biànto rummage through; to turn everything over; to ransack
• 漫山遍野màn shān biàn yělit. covering the mountains and the plains (idiom); fig. as far as the eye can see…
• 玩遍wán biànto visit (a large number of places); to tour around…
• 响遍xiǎng biànto resound (all over the place)
• 普遍化pǔ biàn huàgeneralization (logic)
• 普遍性假设pǔ biàn xìng jiǎ shèuniversal hypothesis
• 满山遍野mǎn shān biàn yěcovering the whole land; over hills and dales
• 漫天遍地màn tiān biàn dìlit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land (idiom); fig. everywhere…
• 漫天遍野màn tiān biàn yělit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land; everywhere; as far as the eye can see
• 尸横遍野shī héng biàn yě(idiom) corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
• 横尸遍野héng shī biàn yěcorpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
• 哀鸿遍野āi hóng biàn yělit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims…
• 烽烟遍地fēng yān biàn dìfire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
• 饿莩遍野è piǎo biàn yěstarving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
• 一遍yī biànone time (all the way through); once through
• 二遍苦èr biàn kǔsecond persecution
• 一遍又一遍yī biàn yòu yī biànover and over

Characters built on 扁

These share the phonetic component 扁 (biǎn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 编biānto weave; to plait; to organize
• 偏piānto lean; to slant; oblique
• 篇piānsheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
• 骗piànto cheat; to swindle; to deceive
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 翩piānto fly fast
• 匾biǎnhorizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall…
• 褊biǎnnarrow; urgent

Characters that look like 遍

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 滥lànoverflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
• 缝féngto sew; to stitch
• 逼bīto force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for
• 逾yúto exceed; to go beyond; to transcend
• 漓lípattering (of rain); seep through
• 遁dùnto evade; to flee; to escape

Sounds the same

Read biàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 便plain; informal; suitable
• 变to change; to become different; to transform
• 辩to dispute; to debate; to argue
• 辨to distinguish; to recognize
• 辫a braid or queue; to plait
• 卞hurried
• 汴name of a river in Henan; Henan
• 弁(old) cap (garment); military officer of low rank (in former times); preceding
• 苄benzyl (chemistry)
• 抃to applaud
• 昪(literary) (of sunlight) bright; (literary) happy; delighted (old variant of 忭
• 汳name of an ancient river in Henan

Where 遍 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Containers & classifiers (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.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read biàn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.