Chinese Character Wiki

靦

miǎn, tiǎn

face to face

Phonosemantic compound. 面 represents the meaning and 見 represents the sound.

Components
面 meaning component

面  Meaning component

miàn

  

face

見 sound component

見  Sound component

jiàn, xiàn

  

see

Evolution

靦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
靦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
靦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

䩄 (靦) 

tiǎn

timid, shy, bashful

䩄 (靦) 

miǎn

variant of 靦|腼[miǎn]

腼 (靦) 

miǎn

bashful

Most common words with 靦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

腼腆

shy

腼

bashful

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4178th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

䩄腼

Unicode

U+9766

Shuowen

“靦，面見也。从面、見，見亦聲。《詩》曰：‘有靦面目’ ，或从旦。”


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