偏
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to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 人 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 偏
- Common rank
- #783
- Unicode
- U+504F
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
partial · Heisig RSH #2787
人 person + book cover
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 偏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行 | lit. to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers (idiom); fig… | |
| 偏正式合成词 | modified compound word | |
| 偏心眼 | bias; partiality; to be partial | |
| 偏利共生 | (biology) to have a commensal relationship with (another organism) | |
| 偏关县 | Pianguan, a county in Xinzhou City 忻州市[Xin1 zhou1 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 性偏好 | sexual preference | |
| 偏微分方程 | partial differential equation (PDE) | |
| 日偏食 | partial eclipse of the sun | |
| 偏转角 | angle of drift (navigation); deflection (from course); angle of divergence | |
| 偏心 | partial; biased; prejudiced; eccentric | |
| 偏生 | (dialect) see 偏偏[pian1 pian1] | |
| 偏三轮摩托车 | motorbike with sidecar | |
| 偏安 | content to hold a small part of the territory; fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground… | |
| 偏高 | to be on the high side; to be unusually high | |
| 偏西 | inclining to the west (e.g. of the sun after noon, indicating lateness of the day) | |
| 偏微分 | (math.) partial differential; (math.) partial derivative | |
| 偏置电流 | bias current (electronics) | |
| 月偏食 | partial eclipse of the moon | |
| 偏门 | side door; doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly) | |
| 偏光 | polarized light |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 扁 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扁 sound part | flat; board, sign, tablet | |
| 编 | to knit, to weave; to arrange, to compile | |
| 骗 | to cheat, to defraud, to swindle | |
| 遍 | everywhere, all over, throughout | |
| 翩 | to fly, to flutter | |
| 煸 | to stir-fry before broiling or stewing | |
| 猵 | otter | |
| 蝙 | bat | |
| 犏 | yak-ox | |
| 稨 | hyacinth bean, haricot | |
| 褊 | 4cramped, narrow; crowded; urgent | |
| 鳊 | bream | |
| 碥 | dangerous rocks jutting out over rapids | |
| 谝 | to brag, to boast; to quibble | |
| 蹁 | to limp |