Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

便: convenience, facility

Also: excrement, feces, letter, chance

JLPT N39 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 更 is drawn in

9 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

ベンben · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 便利なべんりなconvenient
  • 不便なふべんなinconvenient
  • 便所べんじょtoilet
  • 大便だいべんfeces
  • 小便しょうべんurine

ビンbin · on'yomi

  • 郵便ゆうびんpostal service
  • 別便べつびんseparate mail
  • 宅急便たっきゅうびんexpress home delivery

たよりtayori · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 便りたよりnews, letter

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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更

Also built on grow late (更)

Also read ベン

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ビン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
便 convenience · 亻
vs梗 for the most part · 木
便 has 亻 where 梗 has 木.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · biàn

Same form: 便 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
便 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
便 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin biàn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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