Kanji1 / 9
便 kanji
convenience, facility, excrement, feces, letter, chance
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ベンビン
Kun readings
たより
Words with 便
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —小便を垂れるto pee; to piss
- —小便を漏らすto wet one's pants; to wet oneself
- —費用便益分析cost-benefit analysis
- —蛙の面に小便like water off a duck's back; urine on a frog's face
- —汲み取り便所outhouse (from which night-soil may be collected); privy
- —温水洗浄便座bidet toilet with a heated water function; warm-water washlet
- —便所サンダルtoilet sandals; bathroom sandals
- —生活利便施設amenities for daily life (supermarkets, post offices, banks, etc.)
- —起訴便宜主義principle of discretionary prosecution (the right of a public prosecutor to exercise discretion in cancelling prosecution); principle of opportunity
- —ボットン便所outhouse; privy; non-flushing toilet
- —小便一町糞一里if you visit the toilet while traveling, you will fall behind your fellow travelers; one chō for a piss, one ri for a shit
- —汲み取り式便所toilet (from which night-soil may be collected)
- —胎便吸引症候群meconium aspiration syndrome; MAS
- —便坐toilet seat
- —便侫flattery; adulation
- —便便protuberant; paunchy; idly
- —ふん便feces; faeces; excrement; stool
- —連小便going off to urinate together
- —立小便urinating outdoors; urinating by the roadside
- —ご方便upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching); convenience; suitability; availability