辺 — 5 strokes ／ Radical「辶」
道7Elementary year 4 ／ 5 strokes ／ Radical「辶」
- On
- ヘンへん · hen
- Kun
- あた(り)・べata(ri) · be
- Meaning
- area; vicinity; edge; side
Stroke order
Origin
A phonetic-semantic character: 辶 (road, meaning) + a phonetic element; it means "area, edge." (Old form: 邊.)
Readings and examples
| Onヘンへんhen | 辺境へんきょう周辺しゅうへんその辺そのへん |
|---|---|
| Kunあたりatari | 辺りあたり |
| Kunべbe | 海辺うみべ岸辺きしべ |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 海辺うみべ
seaside
- 周辺しゅうへん
surroundings; outskirts
- 底辺ていへん
- 磯辺いそべ
- 辺徼へんきょう
- 辺陲へんすい
- 水辺みずべ
Example
海辺で貝をひろった。
I picked up shells at the seaside.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)