遍 (biàn) means All over (everywhere - a time). Below are 24 of the 28 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这种情况很普 遍 。
Zhè zhǒng qíngkuàng hěn pǔbiàn.
This situation is very common.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 普遍
请仔细检查一 遍 。
Qǐng zǐxì jiǎnchá yí biàn.
Please check it over carefully.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 仔细
请把这段念一 遍 。
Qǐng bǎ zhè duàn niàn yí biàn.
Please read this passage out once.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 念
请把这段话抄一 遍 。
Qǐng bǎ zhè duàn huà chāo yí biàn.
Please copy out this passage once.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 抄
请重复一 遍 这句话。
Qǐng chóngfù yí biàn zhè jù huà.
Please repeat this sentence once.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 重复
老师先示范了一 遍 。
Lǎoshī xiān shìfàn le yí biàn.
The teacher demonstrated it once first.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 示范
手机的使用非常普 遍 。
Shǒujī de shǐyòng fēicháng pǔbiàn.
The use of mobile phones is extremely widespread.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 普遍
这本书至少要看两 遍 。
Zhè běn shū zhìshǎo yào kàn liǎng biàn.
This book needs to be read at least twice.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 至少
他请求老师再讲一 遍 。
Tā qǐngqiú lǎoshī zài jiǎng yí biàn.
He asked the teacher to explain once more.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 请求
出门前务必检查一 遍 。
Chūmén qián wùbì jiǎnchá yí biàn.
Be sure to check once before leaving.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 务必
他照着乐谱弹了一 遍 。
Tā zhàozhe yuèpǔ tán le yí biàn.
He played it through from the score.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 乐谱
请把房间彻底打扫一 遍 。
Qǐng bǎ fángjiān chèdǐ dǎsǎo yí biàn.
Please give the room a thorough cleaning.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 彻底
他的学生 遍 布世界各地。
Tā de xuésheng biànbù shìjiè gèdì.
His students are spread all over the world.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遍布
这段戏他们排练了十几 遍 。
Zhè duàn xì tāmen páiliàn le shí jǐ biàn.
They rehearsed this scene more than a dozen times.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 排练
这个句子他反复练习了几 遍 。
Zhège jùzi tā fǎnfù liànxí le jǐ biàn.
He practised this sentence over and over.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 反复
这种小店 遍 布城市的大街小巷。
Zhè zhǒng xiǎodiàn biànbù chéngshì de dàjiē xiǎoxiàng.
Shops like this are found on every street and lane of the city.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遍布
Reading these is one thing; producing 遍 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
我把事情跟他说了一 遍 。
wǒ bǎ shìqing gēn tā shuōle yī biàn.
I explained the situation to him.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
我把家里找了一 遍 ，什么也没找到。
wǒ bǎ jiālǐ zhǎo le / liǎo / liào yī biàn, shénme yě méi zhǎodào.
I searched the whole flat and found nothing.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
为了一个字，一位八十三岁的老人写了两 遍 。
wèile yīgè zì, yī wèi bāshí sān suì de / dì lǎorén xiěle liǎng biàn.
For the sake of one character, an eighty-three-year-old had written it out twice.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
我在同一条街上走了三 遍 ，才发现自己一直在转圈。
wǒ zài tóngyī tiáo jiēshàng zǒule sān biàn, cái fāxiàn zìjǐ yìzhí zài zhuǎn / zhuàn juān.
I'd walked down the same street three times before I realised I was going in circles.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
我又看了一 遍 那个网页，发现颜色和尺寸我都选错了。
wǒ yòu kànle yī biàn nèigè wǎngyè, fāxiàn yánsè hé chǐcun wǒ dōu xuǎn cuò le / liǎo / liào.
I looked at the web page again and found I'd picked the wrong colour and the wrong size.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Shopping Online
第一次写错了一个字，她觉得不好看，就重新写了一 遍 。
dìyīcì xiě cuò le / liǎo / liào yīgè zì, tā juéde bùhǎo kàn / kān, jiù chóngxīn xiěle yī biàn.
The first time she'd got one character wrong, thought it looked untidy, and written the whole thing again.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
遍 appears in 28 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 遍
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 遍
How is 遍 used in a sentence?
This page shows 28 sentences using 遍 (biàn, "All over (everywhere - a time)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 遍 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 遍 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 遍 an HSK word?
Yes — 遍 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 遍?
The dictionary page for 遍 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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