Kanji N4

便: convenience, facility, excrement

便

Meanings

  • convenience
  • facility
  • excrement
  • feces
  • letter
  • chance
Strokes9
JLPT levelN4
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#729 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ベン
  • ビン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • たより

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings and meanings from KANJIDIC2 © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.