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| 面 (U+9762) "face" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | miàn | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄇㄧㄢˋ | |||
| Wade–Giles: | mien4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | min6 | |||
| Jyutping: | min6 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | 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] | |||
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Radical 176 orradical face (面部) meaning"face" is one of the 11Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9strokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
面 is also the 180th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
In Simplified Chinese,面 is also used as the simplified form of麵/麪 ("noodles" or "flour").
| Strokes | Characters |
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| +0 | 面靣 (= 面) |
| +5 | 靤 (=皰→皮) |
| +6 | 靥SC (= 靨) |
| +7 | 靦 |
| +12 | 靧 |
| +14 | 靨 |
The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.[2] It is a third grade kanji.[2]
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. | |
