Jisho

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便

9 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
convenience, facility, excrement, feces, letter, chance
Kun:
たよ.り
On:
ベンビン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
729 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 便 【ベン】 convenience, service, facility, accommodation, excreta (esp. faeces), excrement, stool
  • 便宜 【ベンギ】 convenience, accommodation, advantage, benefit, expediency
  • 利便 【リベン】 convenience
  • 大便 【ダイベン】 feces, faeces, excrement, stool
  • 便 【ビン】 flight (e.g. airline flight), trip (e.g. train trip), service, mail, post, letter, opportunity, chance
  • 便宜 【ベンギ】 convenience, accommodation, advantage, benefit, expediency
  • 穏便 【オンビン】 gentle, peaceable, amicable, quiet, without fuss, simply
  • 増便 【ゾウビン】 increase in the number of flights

Kun reading compounds

  • 便り 【たより】 news, tidings, information, correspondence, letter
  • 便りがないのはよい便り 【たよりがないのはよいたより】 no news is good news

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bian4, pian2
Korean:
pyeon, byeon

Spanish

  • conveniencia
  • excremento
  • noticias
  • correspondencia
  • carta

Portuguese

  • conveniência

French

  • commodité
  • courrier
  • vol (avion)
  • nouvelles
510 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
610 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
582 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
578 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
450 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
265 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
118 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.8 Japanese for Busy People
330 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
330 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
227 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
101 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
105 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
75 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1000 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
659 Morohashi
95 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
219 New Nelson (John Haig)
991 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1066 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
533 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2166 2001 Kanji
2a7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-7 SKIP code
2124.6 Four corner code
1-42-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4fbf Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
vat, tub, tank
Kun:
ふね
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1809 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 槽 【ソウ】 body (of a biwa)
  • 浄化槽 【ジョウカソウ】 water-purification tank, septic tank
  • 電解槽 【デンカイソウ】 electrolytic cell, electrolytic bath

Kun reading compounds

  • 船 【ふね】 ship, boat, watercraft, vessel, seaplane, tank, tub, vat, trough, counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao2
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • tina
  • tanque
  • cisterna

Portuguese

  • barril
  • balde
  • tanque

French

  • cuve
  • bac
  • réservoir
1527 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1741 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2351 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1444 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1644 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1757 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1537 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1113 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1352 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
734 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
981 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1184 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
15393 Morohashi
1067 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2844 New Nelson (John Haig)
1176 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1260 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1775 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1878 2001 Kanji
4a11.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-11 SKIP code
4596.6 Four corner code
1-33-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
69fd Unicode hex code