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:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にんべん

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

(へん)   radical on the left side of kanji

見(へんけん)   prejudice, narrow view

食(へんしょく)   unbalanced diet

頭痛(へんずつう)   migraine headache

差値(へんさち)   deviation value

屈な(へんくつな)   narrow-minded, perverse

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

重する(へんちょうする)   overemphasize

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

る(かたよる)   incline towards, be biased

Onyomi Examples

ヘン left-hand radical of a character

ヘンケン prejudice, bias, distorted view

普遍 フヘン universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent

カイヘン kanji "shell" radical at left

Kunyomi Examples

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