便

Meaning

便 centers on making things easy and smooth: convenience, a useful facility, or a favorable chance. The letter sense is a natural extension of easy communication, while the excrement/feces sense is a euphemistic application of bodily convenience.

• 便びん
  N3

  flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); sailing (e.g. ferry voyage); service

• 便利べんり
  N5

  convenient; handy; useful

• 郵便ゆうびん
  N3

  mail service; postal service; mail; post

• 便秘べんぴ
  N2

  constipation

• 不便ふべん
  N5

  inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness

• 便乗びんじょう
  N1

  taking advantage of (an opportunity); jumping on the bandwagon

• 便所べんじょ
  N2

  toilet; lavatory; water closet; restroom; bathroom

• 利便りべん

  convenience

• 小便しょうべん
  N2

  urine; piss; pee; urination

• 便宜べんぎ
  N1

  convenience; accommodation; advantage; benefit; expediency

• 宅急便たっきゅうびん

  TA-Q-BIN (express home delivery service provided by Yamato Transport)

• 便りたより
  N3

  news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter

• 穏便おんびん

  gentle; peaceable; amicable; quiet

• 大便だいべん
  N1

  feces; faeces; excrement; stool

• 便箋びんせん
  N2

  writing paper; stationery; notepaper

• 船便ふなびん
  N4

  surface mail (by ship); sea mail

• 郵便局ゆうびんきょく
  N5

  post office

• 便利さべんりさ

  convenience; handiness; usefulness

• 航空便こうくうびん
  N4

  airmail; air mail

• 定期便ていきびん

  regular service

• 宅配便たくはいびん
  N4

  express home delivery service

• 速達便そくたつびん
  N1

  special delivery mail; express delivery post

• 直行便ちょっこうびん

  non-stop flight; direct flight

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