遍

遍 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜竹尸月 (YHSB) or 卜戈尸月 (YISB), four-corner 3330₂, composition ⿺辶扁)

• 𭢬, 𮂝, 𨆩, 𬩢, 𦽟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1261, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39001
• Dae Jaweon: page 1753, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3867, character 1
• Unihan data for U+904D

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p-(r/j)an (“to spread (wide), stretch out”); compare Burmese ပြန့် (pran., “flat and even, broad”) (STEDT).

遍

1. to be everywhere; to be spread out; to lay out

   遍歷／遍历  ―  biànlì  ―  to traverse

   • 小惠未遍，民弗從也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     小惠未遍，民弗从也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Xiǎohuì wèi biàn, mín fú cóng yě. [Pinyin]

     Such paltry charity cannot reach all. The people will not follow you.

2. (literary, or in compounds) common; widespread; universal; pervasive; general; ubiquitous
3. Classifier for occurrences of events.
   • c. 280, 陳壽, “魏志·王肃传”, in 三国志 [Records of the Three Kingdoms]:

     “人有从学者，遇不肯教，而云：‘必当先读百遍’，言‘读书百遍而义自见。’”

     “Rén yǒu cóng xuézhě, yù bù kěn jiào, ér yún:‘Bì dāngxiān dú bǎi biàn’, yán ‘dúshū bǎi biàn ér yì zì jiàn.’”

     "Someone wants to learn, but he is not willing to teach. Instead, he says, 'You must read it a hundred times first.' He means, 'Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will become clear.'"

   請再說一遍。／请再说一遍。  ―  Qǐng zài shuō yī biàn.  ―  Please say it again.

   已經講咗N遍／已经讲咗N遍 [Cantonese]  ―  ji⁵ ging¹ gong² zo² en¹ pin³ [Jyutping]  ―  have already said it so many times

4. (computing) pass, a run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.

   多遍編譯能夠使優化工作做得更多、更充分，可獲得更高質量的目標程序。 [MSC, trad.]
   多遍编译能够使优化工作做得更多、更充分，可获得更高质量的目标程序。 [MSC, simp.]

   Duō biàn biānyì nénggòu shǐ yōuhuà gōngzuò zuò dé gèngduō, gèng chōngfēn, kě huòdé gèng gāo zhìliàng de mùbiāo chéngxù. [Pinyin]

   Multiple-pass compilation allows for more extensive and thorough optimization, resulting in a higher quality target program.

• (to spread out): 布滿／布满 (bùmǎn)
• (common):

• “遍”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. repetition, return
2. extensively, everywhere

• Go-on: へん (hen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: へん (hen, Jōyō)
• Kun: あまねし (amaneshi, 遍し)、あまねく (amaneku, 遍く)

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• IPA^(key): [hẽ̞ɴ]

遍(へん) • (-hen) 

1. (number of) times

   二(に)遍(へん)も三(さん)遍(へん)も(も)

   ni-hen mo san-hen mo

   two or three times

遍 • (pyeon) (hangeul 편, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏn, Yale phyen)

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遍: Hán Nôm readings: bận, biến

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