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Kanji Detail for 辺 - "edge, vicinity, side"

辺

  • Meaning

    辺 means "edge, vicinity, side."

    1. Edge - A border; a margin.

    2. Vicinity - The surrounding area.

    3. Side - A surface; a face.

  • Words using 辺

    • 周辺 しゅうへん Listen circumference; outskirts; environs
    • 一辺倒 いっぺんとう Listen complete devotion (to); total commitment (to); unvarying support (for)
    • 海辺 うみべ Listen beach; seashore; seaside
    • 身辺 しんぺん Listen one's person; around one's person
    • 底辺 ていへん Listen base (of a polygon); bottom (of the social scale); lower levels
    • 水辺 みずべ Listen water's edge; waterside; shore
    • 辺り あたり Listen (in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
    • 浜辺 はまべ Listen beach; foreshore

  • Four-character idioms with 辺

    • 広大無辺 こうだいむへん Listen boundless; infinite; vast
    • 炉辺談話 ろへんだんわ Listen fireside chat
    • 無量無辺 むりょうむへん Listen immense and limitless

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    • Verified meaning: edge, vicinity, side
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read さきべ, ぴょん, へん, ほとり)

    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.

  • Name readings of 辺

    Given names 辺(ほとり)Listen

    Surnames 辺(さきべ)Listen 辺(ぴょん)Listen 辺(へん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    environs; boundary; border; vicinity

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    edge, margin, side, border

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Japanese variant of 邊|边[bian1]

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hen(ヘン) ヘン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ata.ri(あた-り) あた-り

    be(べ) べ

    hotori(ほとり) ほとり

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    辵 辶 (shinnyo・shinnyu)

  • Related Keywords

    edge vicinity side periphery polygon adjacent area border boundary brink fringe frontier margin nearby neighborhood outskirts perimeter proximity surrounding

Sentences including 辺

  • Is there a bank near here?

  • The river is deep here.

  • There was no one about.

  • Let's wind up our work.

  • Let's walk on the beach after dinner.

  • Let's call it a day today.

  • That's about it.

  • I don't know about things like that.

  • His house was out of the way.

  • I'm a stranger here myself.

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