郵便

See also: 邮便

Chinese

		post (office); mail	advantageous; cheap; ordinary advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself
trad. (郵便)		郵	便
simp. (邮便)		邮	便

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 郵便(ゆうびん) (yūbin).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yóubiàn

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄧㄢˋ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iû-piān

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yóubiàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄧㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yóubiàn
  - Wade–Giles: yu²-pien⁴
  - Yale: yóu-byàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: youbiann
  - Palladius: юбянь (jubjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵ pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Tainan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû-piān
  - Tâi-lô: iû-piān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iu'pien
  - IPA (Taipei): /iu²⁴⁻¹¹ piɛn³³/
  - IPA (Tainan): /iu²⁴⁻³³ piɛn³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu²³⁻³³ piɛn³³/

Noun

郵便

(obsolete or Taiwanese Hokkien, Northeastern Mandarin) postal service

Derived terms

郵便士 / 邮便士
郵便局 / 邮便局 (yóubiànjú)
郵便桶 / 邮便桶
郵便筒 / 邮便筒
郵便箱 / 邮便箱 (yóubiànxiāng)
郵便船 / 邮便船
郵便電信局 / 邮便电信局

Japanese

Kanji in this term
郵	便
ゆう Grade: 6	びん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ゆうびん [yùúbíń] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ːbʲĩɴ]

Noun

郵(ゆう)便(びん) • (yūbin) ^{←いうびん (iubin)^?}

postal service
mail, postal matter

Derived terms

郵便(ゆうびん)葉(は)書(がき) (yūbin hagaki, “postal postcard”)
郵便(ゆうびん)番号(ばんごう) (yūbin bangō, “postal code”)
郵便(ゆうびん)局(きょく) (yūbinkyoku, “post office”)
郵便(ゆうびん)貯金(ちょきん) (yūbin chokin, “postal savings”)

See also

〒 (〒, “(postal mark symbol)”)

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
郵	便

Noun

郵便 • (upyeon) (hangeul 우편)

hanja form^? of 우편 (“mail, post”)