Chinese word dictionary

普遍

pǔbiàn · universal; general; widespread; common

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Word information

Simplified普遍

Traditional普遍

Pinyinpǔbiàn

Part of speech形

HSK 3.04

HSK 2.04

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

普pǔ

widespread, universal, general

遍biàn

everywhere, all over, throughout

How to learn 普遍

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Words with the same characters

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遍biàn

everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time; variant of 遍[bian4]

普通pǔtōng

common; ordinary; general; average

普通话pǔtōnghuà

Mandarin (common language); Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language); ordinary speech

普及pǔjí

to spread extensively; to generalize; widespread; popular; universal; ubiquitous; pervasive

遍地biàndì

everywhere; all over

科普kēpǔ

popularization of science (abbr. for 科學普及|科学普及[ke1 xue2 pu3 ji2]); (attributive) popular science; (coll.) to explain in layperson's terms