偏
to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #783 U+504F
How 偏 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic, “person”) + 扁 (phonetic, biǎn)
How to remember it
partial · Heisig RSH #2787
人 person + book cover
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 扁
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 扁 (biǎn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扁 sound component | biǎn | flat; board, sign, tablet |
| 编 | biān | to knit, to weave; to arrange, to compile |
| 骗 | piàn | to cheat, to defraud, to swindle |
| 遍 | biàn | everywhere, all over, throughout |
| 翩 | piān | to fly, to flutter |
| 煸 | biān | to stir-fry before broiling or stewing |
| 猵 | biān | otter |
| 蝙 | biān | bat |
| 犏 | piān | yak-ox |
| 稨 | biǎn | hyacinth bean, haricot |
| 褊 | biǎn | 4cramped, narrow; crowded; urgent |
| 鳊 | biān | bream |
| 碥 | biǎn | dangerous rocks jutting out over rapids |
| 谝 | piǎn | to brag, to boast; to quibble |
| 蹁 | pián | to limp |
Words containing 偏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行 | míng zhī shān yǒu hǔ , piān xiàng hǔ shān xíng | lit. to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers (idiom); fig… |
| 偏正式合成词 | piān zhèng shì hé chéng cí | modified compound word |
| 偏心眼 | piān xīn yǎn | bias; partiality; to be partial |
| 偏利共生 | piān lì gòng shēng | (biology) to have a commensal relationship with (another organism) |
| 偏关县 | Piān guān Xiàn | Pianguan, a county in Xinzhou City 忻州市[Xin1 zhou1 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 性偏好 | xìng piān hào | sexual preference |
| 偏微分方程 | piān wēi fēn fāng chéng | partial differential equation (PDE) |
| 日偏食 | rì piān shí | partial eclipse of the sun |
| 偏转角 | piān zhuǎn jiǎo | angle of drift (navigation); deflection (from course); angle of divergence |
| 偏心 | piān xīn | partial; biased; prejudiced; eccentric |
| 偏生 | piān shēng | (dialect) see 偏偏[pian1 pian1] |
| 偏三轮摩托车 | piān sān lún mó tuō chē | motorbike with sidecar |
| 偏安 | piān ān | content to hold a small part of the territory; fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground… |
| 偏高 | piān gāo | to be on the high side; to be unusually high |
| 偏西 | piān xī | inclining to the west (e.g. of the sun after noon, indicating lateness of the day) |
| 偏微分 | piān wēi fēn | (math.) partial differential; (math.) partial derivative |
| 偏置电流 | piān zhì diàn liú | bias current (electronics) |
| 月偏食 | yuè piān shí | partial eclipse of the moon |
| 偏门 | piān mén | side door; doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly) |
| 偏光 | piān guāng | polarized light |