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Kanji Detail for 偏 - "biased, partial, lean"

偏

  • Meaning

    偏 means "biased, partial, lean."

    1. Biased - Showing prejudice; one-sided.

    2. Partial - Incomplete; favoring one side.

    3. Lean - To incline toward one direction.

    4. Remote - Far from the center; peripheral.

  • Words using 偏

    • 偏差値 へんさち Listen deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score
    • 偏見 へんけん Listen prejudice; bias; distorted view
    • 偏重 へんちょう Listen attaching too much importance to; placing disproportionate emphasis on; making too much of
    • 偏り かたより Listen deviation; inclination; offset
    • 偏る かたよる Listen to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet)

  • Four-character idioms with 偏

    • 不偏不党 ふへんふとう Listen impartiality; neutrality; independence
    • 偏旁冠脚 へんぼうかんきゃく Listen radicals of a kanji (left, right, crown and lower); kanji components
    • 無私無偏 むしむへん Listen to think or act fairly without concern for one's own benefit
    • 知育偏重 ちいくへんちょう Listen too much intellectual training; overemphasis on intellectual education

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    • Verified meaning: biased, partial, lean
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    partial; side; left-side radical; inclining; biased

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    inclined one side; slanting

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    slanting, inclined; prejudiced

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To one side. The two sides of the center are called 偏. Emphasizing one side is also called 偏. Such as 偏勞 (troubling particularly), 偏愛 (favor). | A particle. Unexpectedly is called 偏. Such as the colloquial 偏不湊巧 (just happening not to work out).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hen(ヘン) ヘン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    katayo.ru(かたよ-る) かたよ-る

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    人 亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)

  • Related Keywords

    biased partial lean away from the center exclusively half one-sided remote rural single-mindedly unfair bigoted discriminatory favoring imbalanced incline lopsided narrow-minded partisan prejudice selective skewed slanted

Sentences including 偏

  • His opinion is free from prejudice.

  • He is prejudiced against her.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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