EntryCommonJLPT N3
  1. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix, Suru verb, Transitive verb

    news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter

    pron. だより as a suffix

    それ以来、彼からは何の便りもありません。
    I have never heard from him since.
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Characters in this word

1
便
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

convenience, facility, excrement, feces, letter, chance

Kun
たよ.り
On
ベンビン
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N3
Frequency
729 of 2500
Radical
person
WaniKani
Level 11

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Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-2-7SKIP code
2a7.5The Kanji Dictionary
2124.6Four corner code
2166deroo
4fbfUnicode hex code
1-42-56JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
450Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
219New Nelson (John Haig)
95New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
105Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
71Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
75Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
991Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1066Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
578A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
265Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
659Morohashi
582A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
330Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
330Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
510sakade
118Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
610henshall3
533Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
227Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.8busy_people
101Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1000Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
bian4, pian2Pinyin reading
pyeon, byeonKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
11WaniKani level