편

pyeon · [편]

direction · side · party

bound nounIntermediate

Meanings

  1. directionA bound noun used to indicate a direction something advances into or is headed.
  2. side; partyA bound noun used to indicate one of different positions.
  3. A bound noun used to indicate that someone or something generally belongs to a certain group.
Other Words Spelled the Same (4)

편 · bound noun · Advanced

  1. A bound noun used to separately indicate a piece of writing in a specific form, content, characteristic, etc.
  2. A bound noun that serves as a unit to count books or literary works, or movies, plays, etc.
  3. A bound noun used to indicate a part of the content of a book, which has been divided in large chunks of a regular size.

편 · bound noun · Advanced

  1. A bound noun used to mean an opportunity or means used by a travelling person to send a parcel.

편 · noun

  1. party; sideOne of each group, when a bigger group is divided into two or several smaller groups.

편 · noun

  1. being compiled; being editedThe state of a book being made by a certain person or organization.

Written Forms

편Hangul
便Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

Our school has quite a lot of buildings.

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So, I usually tend to buy my meals out.

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They tend to start their day by listening to music.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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