辺

See also 邊, 邉, and 边

Translingual

shinjitai	辺
simplified	边
traditional	邊

Han character

辺 (radical 162 辵+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸竹 (YSH))

1. edge, margin, side, border

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1253, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38710
• Dae Jaweon: page 1735, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 6, page 3815, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8FBA

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Japanese

Kanji

辺 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: へん (hen)
• Kun: あたり (atari), べ (be), ほとり (hotori)

Compounds

• 辺境
• 辺鄙
• 海辺
• 周辺
• 近辺

Noun

辺 (hiragana へん, romaji hen)

1. (colloquial) place
   • 彼はその辺にいるはずだ。
   • kare wa sono henni iru hazuda.
   • He must be there or somewhere.
2. (geometry) the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; edge, [side]
3. (graph theory) any of the connected pairs of the vertices in a graph; edge

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Korean

Hanja

辺 (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune-Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

辺 (pinyin biān (bian1), tà (ta4), tì (ti4), Wade-Giles pien¹, t'a⁴, t'i⁴)