Chinese Character Wiki
面

miàn

face

Depicts the outline of a face, with an eye (目) in the middle. In simplified Chinese 面 is also used to mean "noodles", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 麵.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts the outline of a face.

目 iconic component

目  Iconic component

mù

  

eye

Evolution

面 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
面 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
面 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
面 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

面  

miàn

face; surface; plane; side, dimension; side; aspect; top; classifier for flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc

面 (麵) 

miàn

flour, dough, noodles; flour; noodles; (of food) soft (not crunchy); (slang) (of a person) ineffectual; spineless

面 (麪) 

miàn

variant of 麵|面[miàn]

Most common words with 面
Freq.
Word
Meaning

方面

respect

里面

inside

面

face

外面

outside

上面

on top of

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (0 verified)

靦 湎 靥

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

麵 緬 缅 腼 湎

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

圙

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.me[n]-s

mjienH

miàn

face


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 99.3112% of movies

126th most common character in movies

74th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

面

Traditional

面麵

Unicode

U+9762

Shuowen

“面，顏前也。从，象人面形。”


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