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編 - N2 Kanji

Meaning of 編 意味

compilation, knit, plait, braid, twist, editing, completed poem, part of a book

編 is one of the most commonly used Japanese kanji, and it also has a lot of special readings in addition to the standard onyomi and kunyomi readings.

ONYOMI 音読み

あ.む a.mu
-あ.み -a.mi

KUNYOMI 訓読み

ヘン hen

Examples

彼は一ヶ月の間に3編の詩を書いた。He composed three poems in a month.
私は今までシェークスピアの作品を3編読んだ。I have read three Shakespearean works up to now.
その巻末には修辞学と論理学の技法についての2編の短い大要があり、後者はソクラテス式論争方の見本で結ばれていた。The end of which there were two little sketches of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method.

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