便所

Chinese

		advantageous; cheap; ordinary advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself	actually; place; (nominalisation prefix)
simp. and trad. (便所)		便	所

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 便 (べん)所 (じょ) (benjo).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biànsuǒ

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄙㄨㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bin⁶ so²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phien-só / pén-chiò
Min Nan (POJ): piān-só͘ / piān-sé

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: biànsuǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄙㄨㄛˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biannsuuo
  - IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: bin⁶ so²
  - Yale: bihn só
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin⁶ so²
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin⁶ so²
  - IPA ^(key): /piːn²² sɔː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phien-só / pén-chiò
  - Hakka Romanization System: pien so` / ben` jioˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pian⁴ so³ / ben³ jio²
  - IPA: /pʰi̯en⁵⁵ so³¹/, /pen³¹ t͡ɕi̯o¹¹/

Note: pén-chiò - from Japanese pronunciation.

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Taichung, Hsinchu, Kinmen, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān-só͘
  - Tâi-lô: piān-sóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piexnsor
  - IPA (Taipei): /piɛn³³⁻¹¹ sɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn³³⁻²¹ sɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /piɛn²²⁻¹² sɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piɛn⁴¹⁻²² sɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²²⁻²¹ sɔ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piān-sé
  - Tâi-lô: piān-sé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piexnsea
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɛn²²⁻²¹ se⁵³/

Noun

便所

(chiefly Taiwanese Min Nan and Hakka) bathroom; restroom; lavatory; toilet

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 廁所 (“toilet; restroom; bathroom”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		洗手間、衛生間、盥洗室、化妝室、化妝間
Mandarin	Beijing	廁所、茅房
	Taiwan	廁所、便所
	Harbin	廁所兒、茅樓兒、茅房、一號兒
	Shenyang	便所、茅樓兒
	Jinan	茅房、茅廁、茅子 Hui
	Muping	茅廁、廁所兒、便所兒
	Luoyang	茅房、茅廁、後茅子、後路兒
	Jiedian	茅子、後頭
	Xi'an	茅子、茅房、後頭、廁所
	Xining	茅廁
	Xuzhou	茅子、屎茅子、廁所兒、廁所
	Yinchuan	茅房、廁所
	Lanzhou	茅廁
	Ürümqi	茅房、後頭、廁所兒、一號兒
	Wuhan	茅廁、廁所、一號、一步樓 dated
	Chengdu	茅房、茅廁、廁所
	Guiyang	茅廁、廁所
	Liuzhou	茅廁、屎坑、糞坑、茅坑、灰屋 rural
	Kunming	茅廁
	Yangzhou	茅廁、廁所
	Nanjing	茅廁、廁所
	Hefei	茅廁、廁所
	Nantong	茅缸、茅廁、池缸、屎缸
Cantonese	Guangzhou	廁所、屎坑
	Hong Kong	廁所、屎坑
	Dongguan	屎糞坑、廁坑
	Taishan	廁所、屎糞堆、屎坑
	Yangjiang	糞六、糞廁
Gan	Nanchang	茅廁、廁所
	Lichuan	茅廁、窖上
	Pingxiang	廁所、東司 dated
Hakka	Meixian	廁所、屎窖
	Xingning	屎缸
	Huidong	糞缸
	Qujiang	屎寮
	Xiaosanjiang	屎棚
	Changting	屎窖
	Pingyu	屎缸下
	Wuping	屎缸
	Liancheng	屎缸
	Ninghua	東司
	Yudu	屎坑、茅廁、糞坑、廁所
	Ruijin	屎缸、糞寮下
	Shicheng	肥湖
	Shangyou	糞坑
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	便所
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	便所
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	便所
	Dongshi (Dabu)	便所
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	便所
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	便所
Huizhou	Jixi	茅廁、廁所
Jin	Taiyuan	茅子、茅房
Jin	Xinzhou	茅子
Min Bei	Jian'ou	屎坑、東司、廁所
Min Dong	Fuzhou	糞坑厝、糞坑、廁所
Min Dong	Matsu	糞池、廁所
Min Nan	Xiamen	屎礐、礐廁、廁所
	Quanzhou	屎礐、廁所
	Zhangzhou	屎礐、廁所
	Taipei	屎礐
	Kaohsiung	屎礐仔
	Tainan	屎礐仔
	Taichung	屎礐仔、便所
	Hsinchu	屎礐仔間、便所
	Lukang	屎礐
	Sanxia	屎礐
	Yilan	礐仔
	Kinmen	屎礐、便所、染顏
	Magong	屎礐、便所
	Penang	染蠻
	Singapore	染蠻
	Philippines (Manila)	廁所
	Chaozhou	廁所、東司
	Shantou	廁所、東司
	Haikou	屎礐
	Leizhou	屎礐
Wu	Shanghai	廁所、廁所間、衛生間、馬桶間、洗手間、小便間、盥洗室
	Suzhou	屎坑、坑棚、廁所
	Hangzhou	廁所間
	Wenzhou	茅坑、廁所
	Chongming	坑棚
	Danyang	廁所、廁所間
	Jinhua	廁所
	Ningbo	屙坑間、屙坑、茅坑、坑頭、坑頭間、坑跟間、屙缸、衛生間、廁所間
Xiang	Changsha	茅廁、茅廁屋、廁屋 suburban
	Shuangfeng	茅廁
	Loudi	茅廁

References

(Min Nan) “Entry #4691”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
便	所
べん Grade: 4	しょ > じょ Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

Literally “place for convenience”.

Noun

便所 (hiragana べんじょ, rōmaji benjo)

(dated) bathroom, restroom, lavatory, toilet

Usage notes

While previously (1970s) this term, or the honorific お便所 (o-benjo) was the preferred polite term to refer to a bathroom, it has now been largely replaced with お手洗い (o-tearai, “washroom”) – or even トイレ (toire, “toilet”) – and sounds dated if used.

Synonyms

トイレ (toire), おトイレ (o-toire)
手洗 (てあら)い (tearai), お手洗 (てあら)い (otearai, “washroom”)
化粧室 (keshōshitsu, “lavatory”, literally “make-up room, powder room”) – used in public spaces, like shops or airplane, more as the written sign than in speech.

Derived terms

お便 (べん)所 (じょ) (o-benjo)

Korean

Hanja in this term
便	所

Noun

便所 • (byeonso) (hangeul 변소)

Hanja form^? of 변소 (“bathroom, restroom, lavatory, toilet”).

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