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面
面
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
Stroke order animation

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

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

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]

References

^ Oh Hyung Min. "Hanja History Trek - Chinese radical entries site". Retrieved 2011-04-07.
^ ^a ^b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.