U+4FBF "便" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
便
U+4FBF "便" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a common Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of "convenient," "handy," or "ordinary," as well as serving as an adverb meaning "then" or "just" in classical contexts. It is composed of the radical "亻" (person) on the left and the phonetic component "更" (gèng) on the right, reflecting its historical formation as a phono-semantic compound. In modern usage, this character appears in everyday terms such as "方便" (fāngbiàn) meaning convenient, "随便" (suíbiàn) meaning casual or arbitrary, and "便宜" (piányi) meaning cheap, while in Japanese it also frequently denotes convenience or bowel movements depending on context, highlighting its versatile role across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4FBF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 便 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 便 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBE 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4FBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004FBF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4fbf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AB4B |
| kCCCII | 21315B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4F6D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4F6D |
| kCangjie | OMLK |
| kCantonese | bin6 |
| kCihaiT | 105.205 |
| kCowles | 3295 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0219.100 |
| kDefinition | convenience, ease; expedient |
| kEACC | 21315B |
| kFanqie | 房連 婢面 |
| kFenn | 834B |
| kFennIndex | 409.02 411.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2124.6 |
| kGB0 | 1767 |
| kGB1 | 1767 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0221a |
| kHangul | 변:0N 편:0E |
| kHanYu | 10157.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | biàn(1235) pián(58) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10157.030:pián,biàn,biān |
| kHKGlyph | 0150 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0219.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10157.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0103.320 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3163 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AB4B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A58 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F1A9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7835 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4F6D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4B47 |
| kJapanese | ベン ビン ヘン たより すなわち |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1556 |
| kJapaneseKun | TAYORI SUNAWACHI |
| kJapaneseOn | BEN BIN |
| kJis0 | 4256 |
| kKangXi | 0103.320 |
| kKorean | PHYEN PYEN |
| kLau | 100 2506 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0189 |
| kMandarin | biàn |
| kMatthews | 5224 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2362 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006749 MJ006749:E0102 MJ006750:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 00659:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0450 0451 |
| kPhonetic | 1047 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3624+9.2.7 V+13506+9.2.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.7 |
| kSBGY | 139.27 412.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 29.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | biàn粵bin6 pián粵pin4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0189 |
| kTang | *bhiɛ̀n bhiɛn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 021.190:biàn 282.180:pián |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tiện |
| kXerox | 241:250 |
| kXHC1983 | 0068.030:biàn 0873.020:pián |