Illustration: At a Japanese educational toy workshop, a maker holds a narrow wooden component immediately to the left of a wider component inside a single square assembly tray. Both pieces have abstract irregular contours and matching attachment points.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

偏へん

hen

left-hand part of a kanji

Example sentences

この漢字かんじの偏へんをよく見みてください。
Look closely at the left-hand part of this kanji.
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海うみという字じの偏へんはさんずいです。
The left-hand radical of the kanji for sea is the water radical.
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この二ふたつの漢字かんじは偏へんが同おなじです。
These two kanji have the same left-hand radical.
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Kanji in 偏

偏partial; sideOnヘンKunかたよる

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