普遍
ふへん · fuhen · JLPT N1 · na-adj
universality
🌍 普 = general/wide + 遍 = everywhere: fuhen means found everywhere, all over
普 means general or widespread, and 遍 means all over or throughout. Together they describe something present in every place, like the globe itself covering the whole world.
遍 — 辶 (walk) + 扁 (flat/phonetic)
遍 is a phono-semantic compound. The 辶 radical signals motion or going, while 扁 supplies the sound (related to biǎn/biàn). The original sense of moving over an area gave rise to the modern meaning 'everywhere' or 'one time through'.