Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

729 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: convenience, facility, excrement, feces, letter, chance

Kunyomi: たよ.り

Onyomi: ベン ビン

Composition:

便

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にんべん

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

便(ゆうびん)   postal service

便(べつびん)   separate mail

宅急便(たっきゅうびん)   express home delivery

便利な(べんりな)   convenient

便な(ふべんな)   inconvenient

便所(べんじょ)   toilet

便(だいべん)   feces

便(しょうべん)   urine

便り(たより)   news, letter

Onyomi Examples

便 ベン convenience, service, facility, accommodation, excreta (esp. faeces), excrement, stool

便 ベンギ convenience, accommodation, advantage, benefit, expediency

便 リベン convenience

便 ダイベン feces, excrement, stool

便 ビン flight (e.g. airline flight), trip (e.g. train trip), service, mail, post, letter, opportunity, chance

便 ベンギ convenience, accommodation, advantage, benefit, expediency

便 オンビン gentle, peaceable, amicable, quiet, without fuss, simply

便 ゾウビン increase in the number of flights

Kunyomi Examples

便 たより news, tidings, information, correspondence, letter

便りがないのはよい便 たよりがないのはよいたより no news is good news