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方便 (fāng biàn): meaning and stroke order

方便 (fāng biàn) means convenient; suitable, to facilitate; to make things easy, having money to spare.

方便

Simplified
方便
Traditional
方便 (same form)
Pinyin
fāng biàn

Stroke order of 方便

方

  • Fāng surname Fang
  • fāng square; power or involution (math.)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

便

  • biàn plain; informal
  • pián used in 便宜[pian2 yi5]; used in 便便[pian2 pian2]
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 方便

  1. fāng biàn
    • convenient; suitable
    • to facilitate; to make things easy
    • having money to spare
    • (euphemism) to relieve oneself

Radicals of the characters

方
Radical 方 (Kangxi radical 70) · 4 strokes · 丶 on top, 万 below
便
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 9 strokes · 亻 on the left, 更 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

方便 in our stories

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  • 可是她的父亲去年摔了一跤以后，腿一直不太方便，一个人住在老房子里。

    kěshì tā de fùqīn qùnián shuāi le yì jiāo yǐhòu tuǐ yìzhí bú tài fāngbiàn yí gè rén zhù zài lǎo fángzi lǐ

    But since her father's fall last year his leg had never been right, and he lived alone in the old house.

    From the story No perfect answer HSK 6

  • 邱大姐这才开口：“按照法律，邻居之间应该本着方便生活、团结互助、公平合理的原则来解决问题。树是郝大爷的，可伸过墙的树枝给贝女士带来了实际的损失，这也是事实。”

    Qiū dàjiě zhè cái kāikǒu ànzhào fǎlǜ línjū zhījiān yīnggāi běnzhe fāngbiàn shēnghuó tuánjié hùzhù gōngpíng hélǐ de yuánzé lái jiějué wèntí shù shì Hǎo dàye de kě shēn guò qiáng de shùzhī gěi Bèi nǚshì dàilái le shíjì de sǔnshī zhè yě shì shìshí

    Only then did Sister Qiu speak: "Under the law, neighbours should settle problems in a spirit of convenience, solidarity and mutual help, fairness and reason. The tree is Mr Hao's, but the branches over the wall have caused Ms Bei real losses; that's a fact too."

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 方便

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).