U+4FBF "便" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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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
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
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
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10157.030
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