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面

面

See also: 靣, 麵, 麫, and 麪

Translingual

Traditional 麵
Shinjitai 麺
Simplified 面
Stroke order

Han character

面 (radical 176 面+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一田尸中 (MWSL) or 一田卜中 (MWYL), four-corner 10600)

  1. Kangxi radical #176, ⾯ ‎(“face”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1383, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42618
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1896, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4398, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9762

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 面
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (面) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蝒 *men
緬 *menʔ
湎 *menʔ
愐 *menʔ
偭 *menʔ, *mens
勔 *menʔ
面 *mens
麵 *meːns

Pictogram (象形) , looks like man's face, derived from 𦣻.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 面

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 面
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彌箭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /miᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mianH/
Li
Rong		 /miɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /mĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 miàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 面
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 miàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjienH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.me[n]-s/
English face

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 面
Reading # 1/1
No. 9098
Phonetic
component		 面
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 面
Old
Chinese		 /*mens/

Definitions

面

  1. (anatomy) face   (Classifier: 塊／块 c)
  2. surface; plane
  3. aspect; side; respect
  4. side; dimension

See also

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 面 – see 麵 (“noodles”).
(This character, 面, is the simplified form of 麵.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

面

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. mask
  2. face
  3. features
  4. surface

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
面
めん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

面 ‎(hiragana めん, romaji men)

  1. face
  2. surface
  3. mask
  4. page

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
面
おもて
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

面 ‎(hiragana おもて, romaji omote) (alternative reading hiragana おも, romaji omo)

  1. face
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
面
つら
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

面 ‎(hiragana つら, romaji tsura)

  1. face
  2. surface
  3. mask
  4. page
Derived terms

Suffix

面 ‎(hiragana づら, romaji -zura)

  1. -looking

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

面 • ‎(myeon)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 면 (revised: myeon, McCune-Reischauer: myŏn, Yale: myen)
  • Name (hangeul): 낯 (revised: nat, McCune-Reischauer: nat)
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Vietnamese

Han character

面 (diện, miến)

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