Radical 176

Radical 176 or radical face (面部) meaning "face" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

面
← 175 Radical 176 (U+2FAF) 177 →
面 (U+9762) "face"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	miàn
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄧㄢˋ
Wade–Giles:	mien4
Cantonese Yale:	min6
Jyutping:	min6
Japanese Kana:	メン men / ベン ben (on'yomi) おも omo / おもて omote (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	면 myeon
Hán-Việt:	diện, miến
Names
Japanese name(s):	面/めん men
Hangul:	낯 nat[1]
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

面 is also the 180th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Simplified Chinese, 面 is also used as the simplified form of 麵/麪 ("noodles" or "flour").

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	面 靣 (=面)
+5	靤 (=皰 -> 皮)
+6	靥SC (=靨)
+7	靦
+12	靧
+14	靨

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/面

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[2] It is a third grade kanji.^[2]