miàn
flour
Phonosemantic compound. 麥 represents the meaning and 丏 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.3112% of movies
126th most common character in movies
74th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+9EAA |
Shuowen | “麪,麥末也。从麥,丏聲。” |
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