遍野

biànyě

adjective #34,424

Meanings

1 covering the whole countryside
2 spreading across the fields
3 everywhere across the plains

Characters

everywhere / all over

wilderness / open country

Examples

春天来了，遍野的鲜花盛开。

Chūntiān lái le, biànyě de xiānhuā shèngkāi.

Spring has come, and flowers are blooming all across the fields.

战争过后，尸横遍野。

Zhànzhēng guòhòu, shīhéng biànyě.

After the war, corpses were strewn across the land.

Tips

usage

遍野 ('all over the wilderness') is a bound form, almost always used in compounds: 漫山遍野 (mànshān-biànyě, 'all over hills and fields'), 哀鸿遍野 (āihóng-biànyě, 'sufferers everywhere'), 尸横遍野 (corpses strewn across the land). Rarely stands alone in modern speech.

Stroke Order

遍 biàn

野 yě