偏 means “biased, lopsided, left radical”

へん · hen

Also: partial, side, left-side radical, inclining

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): かたよる
On'yomi (Chinese reading): ヘン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 11 strokes

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A person (亻) leaning to one side: lopsided. 偏見 is prejudice, 偏差値 is the exam score showing how far you sit from the average, and the left-hand part of a kanji, like the 亻 in this one, is called its 偏.

Used in 偏見 (henken, prejudice), 偏る (katayoru, to be lopsided/biased), and 偏差値 (hensachi, standard score)

偏 means “biased, lopsided, left radical”

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