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Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1340 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: partial, side, left-side radical, inclining, biased

Kunyomi: かたよ.る

Onyomi: ヘン

Composition: 亻 扁

偏

Radical

Radical: 人

Reading: にんべん

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

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Examples

Examples with audio

偏(へん)   radical on the left side of kanji

偏見(へんけん)   prejudice, narrow view

偏食(へんしょく)   unbalanced diet

偏頭痛(へんずつう)   migraine headache

偏差値(へんさち)   deviation value

偏屈な(へんくつな)   narrow-minded, perverse

偏狭な(へんきょうな)   narrow-minded, intolerant

偏重する(へんちょうする)   overemphasize

偏愛する(へんあいする)   be partial, show favoritism

偏る(かたよる)   incline towards, be biased

Onyomi Examples

偏 (ヘン) left-hand radical of a character

偏見 (ヘンケン) prejudice, bias, distorted view

普遍 (フヘン) universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent

貝偏 (カイヘン) kanji "shell" radical at left

Kunyomi Examples

偏る (かたよる) to lean (to one side), to incline, to be unbalanced (e.g. diet), to be unduly weighted towards, to be concentrated on, to be partial, to be biased, to be prejudiced

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