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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N2

428 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: environs, boundary, border, vicinity

Kunyomi: あた.り, ほと.り, -べ

Onyomi: ヘン

Composition: 刀 辶

辺

Radical

Radical: 辵

Reading: しんにょう

Meaning: walk

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

この辺(このへん)   around here

周辺(しゅうへん)   circumference

近辺(きんぺん)   vicinity

辺り(あたり)   nearby

窓辺(まどべ)   by the window

川辺(かわべ)   riverside

渡辺(わたなべ)   Watanabe (surname)

Onyomi Examples

辺 (ヘン) area, vicinity, region, side, edge, circumstances

辺境 (ヘンキョウ) remote region, outlying district, border district, frontier

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

どの辺 (ドノヘン) whereabouts, what part, how much, what point

Kunyomi Examples

辺り (あたり) (in the) neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity, nearby, surroundings, around, about, or thereabouts, for instance, say, such as

あたり一面 (あたりいちめん) whole area, surrounding area, all around, everywhere, all over the place

御辺 (ごへん) you

辺 (ほとり) side (esp. of a waterbody), edge, bank, shore

片辺 (かたほとり) corner, remote country place

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