Chinese symbol for “excrement”
粪便
fèn biàn
Traditional: 糞便
excrement; feces; night soil
The closest CC-CEDICT match for excrement is 粪便 (fèn biàn), defined as: excrement; feces; night soil.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “excrement”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屎 | shǐ | feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc) |
| 大便 | dà biàn | to defecate; excrement; feces |
| 大恭 | dà gōng | (literary) excrement; feces |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 粪便.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大粪 (大糞) | dà fèn | human excrement; night soil (human manure traditionally used as agricultural fertilizer) |
| 粪坑 (糞坑) | fèn kēng | latrine pit; cesspit |
| 粪土 (糞土) | fèn tǔ | dirty soil; dung and dirt |
| 粪肥 (糞肥) | fèn féi | manure; dung |
| 化粪池 (化糞池) | huà fèn chí | septic tank |
| 方便 | fāng biàn | convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy |
| 随便 (隨便) | suí biàn | as one wishes; as one pleases |
| 便宜 | biàn yí | convenient |
See also: Japanese symbol for “excrement”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.