CONVENIENT    方便

APPROPRIATE FOR DEFINED DESIRES OR NEEDS.
EXPEDIENCEADVANTAGEPROPITIOUSNESSTIMELINESSSUITABILITYAPPROPRIATENESS.SUITABLEAPPROPRIATEFITTINGFITSUITEDOPPORTUNETIMELYWELL-TIMEDFAVORABLEADVANTAGEOUSSEASONABLEEXPEDIENT
Modern Chinese Criteria
便利 便當 便 方便 省便 省事 輕便 簡便 近便 穩便 靈便 活便 便捷 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • APPROPRIATE　EXCELLENT in a DEFINED SITUATION OR FOR a DEFINED NEED. (anc: 5/0, child: 8)
  • EXCELLENT　FEATURE BECAUSE of which SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IS OR SHOULD BE PREFERRED to OTHERS (anc: 4/0, child: 11)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 115

    • Words (3 items)

    便  biàn OC: bens MC: biɛn 18 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Ant: 難/DIFFICULT The clearly dominant word for anything that is hard to achieve or hard to sustain is nán 難 (ant. yì 易 "easy").

      Syntactic words
    • nabconvenience; what is convenient in the circumstancesCH
    • vadVeffortlessly; convenientlyCH
    • vibe convenient; be advisable; be called for
    • vtoNuse for convenience
    • vtoNcausativemake convenient, facilitate; make things convenient and advantageous for
    • vtoNcausativemake more convenient, improve (e.g. utensils)LZ
    • vtoNputativefind comfortable
    宜適  yí shì MC: ngje syek OC: ŋɡral qljeɡ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VP[adN]what is convenient, convenient productsCH
    宜  yí MC: ngje OC: ŋɡral 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vibe (found) convenientCH