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U+9762, 面
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9762

[U+9761]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9763]
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U+2FAF, ⾯
KANGXI RADICAL FACE

[U+2FAE]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2FB0]

Translingual

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Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #176, .

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1383, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42618
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1896, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4398, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9762
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Chinese

More information simp. and trad., 2nd round simp. ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 面, Shang ...

Pictogram (象形), A man’s face, with an eye exaggerated, derived from 𦣻. The horizontal stroke was added later. Unrelated to .

Etymology 2: Simplified from (elimination of ) as adopted by the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (漢字簡化方案) in 1956.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mjal (face); cognate with Mizo hmêl (face), Jingpho man (face). (OC *menʔ, “to turn; to violate”) is probably cognate (Wang, 1982), perhaps its endoactive (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • min6-2 - surface, top, face; dignity, reputation, face.

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Definitions

  1. (literary or dialectal) face (Classifier: c)
    笑容笑容   miàn dài xiàoróng   to have a smile on one's face
    [Cantonese, trad.]
    [Cantonese, simp.]
    nei5 faai3 min6 jau5 daat3 je5. [Jyutping]
    There's something on your face.
  2. surface; top; face
       shuǐmiàn   water surface
       miàn   road surface
  3. aspect; side; respect
       quánmiàn   overall
  4. right side; cover; outside
  5. (geometry) face
    長方體 [MSC, trad.]
    长方体 [MSC, simp.]
    Chángfāngtǐ yǒu liù ge miàn. [Pinyin]
    A cuboid has six faces.
  6. (Cantonese, Singapore and Penang Hokkien) dignity; reputation; face
    [Cantonese]   mou5 min6-2 [Jyutping]   to lose face; to be embarrassed
  7. to meet
       miànshì   to come out (literally, “to meet the world”)
  8. face-to-face
       miàntán   to talk with someone face to face
       miàngào   to inform face to face
  9. to face
       miàn   to face the wall
       bèi shān miàn shuǐ   backing on to a mountain and facing a body of water
  10. suffix used to form a noun of locality
       qiánmiàn   in front
       shàngmiàn   higher place
    西   miàn   west
  11. short for 面試面试 (miànshì, “interview”)
    HR   HRmiàn   (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  12. Classifier for objects with a flat surface.
    國旗国旗   miàn guóqí   a national flag
       miàn   a drum
  13. Classifier for numbers of times people meet each other.
    [MSC, trad.]
    [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ hé tā zhǐ jiàn guo yī miàn. [Pinyin]
    I have only met him once.
Synonyms
  • (face):
  • (dignity):
  • (classifier):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (めん) (men)
  • Korean: 면(面) (myeon)
  • Vietnamese: diện ()

Others:

  • Proto-Mien: *ʰmi̯enᴬ (face)
  • Vietnamese: miền ()
  • Zhuang: mienh

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“flour; wheat noodles; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of ).
Notes:

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “面(前~、脸~)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 212.
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