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便 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「亻」

道
7Elementary year 4 ／ 9 strokes ／ Radical「亻」
On
ベン・ビンべん・びん · ben · bin
Kun
たよ(り)tayo(ri)
Meaning
convenience; mail

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

A person (人) and 更 (to renew): people rearrange things to make them convenient.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onベンべんben便利べんり便法べんぽう簡便かんべん
Onビンびんbin便乗びんじょう郵便ゆうびん定期便ていきびん
Kunたよりtayori便りたより初便りはつだより花便りはなだより

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 便利べんり

    convenient

  • 郵便ゆうびん

    mail, post

More words with this kanji

  • 郵便局ゆうびんきょく
  • 郵便袋ゆうびんぶくろ
  • 便宜べんぎ
  • 便箋びんせん
  • 溲便しゅうべん
  • 便牋びんせん

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

この町(まち)は駅(えき)が近(ちか)くて便利(べんり)です。

This town is convenient because the station is close.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

便利郵便便利profit郵post付to att…例exampl…信trust借borrow候climat…弁speech抃to cla…泯to die…旻the au…俛to bow…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 亻Map of reading ベンAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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