Kanji

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:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: しんにょう

Meaning: walk

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

この(このへん)   around here

(しゅうへん)   circumference

(きんぺん)   vicinity

り(あたり)   nearby

(まどべ)   by the window

(かわべ)   riverside

(わたなべ)   Watanabe (surname)

Onyomi Examples

ヘン area, vicinity, region, side, edge, circumstances

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

普遍 フヘン universal, general, ubiquitous, omnipresent

どの ドノヘン whereabout, about where, how much

Kunyomi Examples

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

ごへん you

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

かたほとり corner, remote country place