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The character "遍" is structurally composed of the semantic component 辶, which denotes movement or walking, combined with 扁 acting primarily as a phonetic element while also contributing a sense of breadth or flatness, together creating a concept of movement extending across an area. Its core meaning, established early on, was "to reach everywhere" or "to pervade", describing a thorough spatial coverage, as in traveling all over a place. From this foundational sense of comprehensive spatial distribution, its meaning broadened to function as an adverb meaning "every" or "all", applicable to a complete set of items or instances, and also as a verbal classifier indicating one full cycle or occurrence of an action, such as reading something once through. This semantic development illustrates how a character originally tied to physical traversal evolved to express abstract notions of universality and completed cycles, all while its graphical form has remained consistent as the traditional character, without a separate simplified counterpart.
Example Sentences Hide
我找遍了房间。
这本书我读了一遍。
他走遍了全世界。
遍地都是落叶。
这个消息传遍了学校。
普遍认为这是正确的。
他一遍又一遍地检查作业。
为了遍寻真相，他调查了所有相关人士。