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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

便当

biàndāng

convenient

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

convenient

02

handy

03

easy

04

bento (a meal in a partitioned box)

05

lunchbox

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 便当 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 便当 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

恶霸恶劣地践踏同学的午餐便当。è bà è liè dì jiàn tà tóng xué de wǔ cān biàn dāng。

The bully stomped on his schoolmate’s lunchbox out of spite.

弟弟太饿了,一拿起便当就狼吞虎咽。dì di tài è le, yī ná qǐ biàn dāng jiù láng tūn hǔ yàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

美国警察挺猛的哈?两三下就让罪犯领便当。měi guó jǐng chá tǐng měng de hā? liǎng sān xià jiù ràng zuì fàn lǐng biàn dāng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 便当.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 便当.

Directly before

  • 领便当1
  • 午餐便当1
  • 一拿起便当1

Directly after

  • 便当就1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 便当

What does 便当 mean in Chinese?

便当 (biàndāng) means convenient.

How do you pronounce 便当?

便当 is pronounced biàndāng.

Is 便当 an HSK word?

便当 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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