miǎn
flushed with drink
A man's face 面 after drinking 氵; 面 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*menʔ | mjienX | miǎn | sink in (wine) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4504th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6E4E |
Shuowen | “湎，沈於酒也。从水，面聲。《周書》曰：‘罔敢湎于酒。’” |
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