大便
だいべん · daiben · JLPT N1 · noun
fecal matter
💩 大 = big + 便 = stool/excrement, so 大便 literally means big stool
便 also means convenience, as in 便利, but in 大便 it means excrement. Paired with 小便 (urine), it forms 大小便, the bodily-waste pair (feces and urine).
大 — pictograph of a person with arms outstretched
大 is a pictograph showing a person standing with arms and legs spread wide. The outstretched arms suggest 'big' or 'great', extending from the literal image of a large stance to abstract meanings like important or grand. It is one of the oldest characters, found on oracle bones.
便 — person 亻 + change 更
A semantic compound: 亻(person) beside 更 (to change/replace). The original sense was a person making things easier or more convenient by adjusting them. From 'convenient' it extended to 'then/thereupon' (biàn) and to bodily 'discharge' (as in 大便).