辺 (biān): Japanese variant form of 边 (sid…

Meanings

1 Japanese variant form of 边 (side; edge)

Characters

辺

biān

side; edge (Japanese form)

Examples

中文里这个边字不用日本写法。

Zhōngwén lǐ zhè gè biān zì bù yòng Rìběn xiěfǎ.

In Chinese this side is written 边, not the Japanese form.

Tips

history

辺 is the Japanese shinjitai (post-war simplified kanji) for the character meaning 'side, edge'. It is not used in modern standard Chinese, where the simplified form is 边 and the traditional form is 邊. All three share the walk radical 辶. Chinese learners meet 辺 only in Japanese text and Japanese surnames, never in standard Chinese writing.

register

Not standard Chinese; appears in Japanese contexts and etymology notes only. Use 边 when writing Chinese.

Components

radical

辶 chuò

walk; movement

The walk radical 辶 (a contracted form of 辵) wraps the lower left and is written last. It carries the shared 'edge / boundary one moves along' sense across 辺 and Chinese 边.

phonetic

刀 dāo

knife

The Japanese form replaced the bulky right side of 邊 with a simple 刀-shaped element as a stylized abbreviation; it functions as a shorthand stroke-group, not a true phonetic.

No stroke data for 辺; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.