便便

Chinese

		advantageous; cheap; ordinary advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself	advantageous; cheap; ordinary advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself
simp. and trad. (便便)		便	便

Etymology

“poo”

Reduplicative diminutive.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piánpián

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢˊ ㄆㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pin⁴ pin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piánpián
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˊ ㄆㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piánpián
    • Wade–Giles: pʻien²-pʻien²
    • Yale: pyán-pyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyanpyan
    • Palladius: пяньпянь (pjanʹpjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛn³⁵ pʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pin⁴ pin⁴
    • Yale: pìhn pìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pin⁴ pin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pin⁴ pin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːn²¹ pʰiːn²¹/

Adjective

便便

1. (literary) paunchy; potbellied
2. (literary) argumentative

Derived terms

• 喋喋便便
• 大腹便便 (dàfùpiánpián)
• 空腹便便
• 腹便便

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biànbiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶ bin⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phien-phien
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piān-piān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biànbiàn → biànbian (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ → ㄅㄧㄢˋ ˙ㄅㄧㄢ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biànbiån
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴-pien⁵
    • Yale: byàn-byan
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biann.biann
    • Palladius: бяньбянь (bjanʹbjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi̯ɛn⁵¹/ → /pi̯ɛn⁵¹ b̥i̯ɛn¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin⁶ bin⁶
    • Yale: bihn bihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶ bin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶ bin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn²² piːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien-phien
    • Hakka Romanization System: pien pien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pian⁴ pian⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰi̯en⁵⁵ pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān-piān
    • Tâi-lô: piān-piān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piexnpien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²²⁻²¹ piɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁴¹⁻²² piɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²⁻²¹ piɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɛn³³⁻¹¹ piɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³⁻²¹ piɛn³³/

Noun

便便

1. (Mandarin, Cantonese, colloquial, childish or euphemistic) poo; poo-poo; faeces; excrement

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 屎 (“faeces”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		糞, 屎, 糞便, 大便, 大恭
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	屎, 大外, 㞎㞎 childish
	Taiwan	大便, 屎
	Harbin	屎, 㞎㞎 childish
	Malaysia	屎, 大便
	Singapore	屎, 大便
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	屎, 大糞, 㞎㞎 childish
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	屎
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	屎, 屎㞎㞎 childish
	Wanrong	屎
	Xi'an	屎
	Xining	大便
	Xuzhou	屎, 㞎㞎 childish
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	屎
	Lanzhou	屎
	Ürümqi	屎
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	屎, 屎㞎衣兒, 㞎㞎 childish, 屎㞎㞎 childish
	Wuhan	㞎㞎, 屎, 大糞, 糞, 糟兒 slang, 米田共 argot
	Guiyang	屎, 㞎㞎 childish, 屎㞎兒 childish
	Liuzhou	屎, 癟, 大便
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	屎
	Yangzhou	屎, 㞎㞎 childish
Cantonese	Guangzhou	屎, 茄
	Hong Kong	屎, 茄, 大便, 米田共 slang, 便便 childish, 唔唔 childish, 臭臭 childish, 坺坺 childish
	Macau	屎
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	屎, 茄
	Dongguan	屎
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	屎
	Penang (Guangfu)	屎
	Singapore (Guangfu)	屎
Gan	Nanchang	屎
	Lichuan	屎
	Pingxiang	屎
Hakka	Meixian	屎, 大糞
	Yudu	屎
	Kuching (Hepo)	屎
Huizhou	Jixi	屎, 練 childish
Jin	Taiyuan	屎, 㞎㞎 childish
Northern Min	Jian'ou	屎
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	屎
Southern Min	Xiamen	屎
	Quanzhou	屎
	Zhangzhou	屎
	Tainan	屎, 大便 GT
	Penang (Hokkien)	屎
	Singapore (Hokkien)	屎
	Manila (Hokkien)	屎
	Chaozhou	屎
	Singapore (Teochew)	屎
	Leizhou	屎
	Haikou	屎
	Singapore (Hainanese)	屎
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	屎
Wu	Shanghai	惡, 大解 dated
	Shanghai (Chongming)	惡
	Suzhou	惡
	Danyang	屎
	Hangzhou	惡
	Ningbo	惡
	Wenzhou	惡
	Jinhua	惡
Xiang	Changsha	屎, 㞎㞎 childish
	Loudi	屎, 㞎㞎 childish
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

• 屎㞎㞎 (shǐbǎba)
• (regional) 㞎㞎 (bǎba)

Adjective

便便

1. (Hakka, Southern Min) ready; ready-made; readily available