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Chinese character radical From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radical 176 or radical face (面部) meaning "face" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
面 | ||
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面 (U+9762) "face" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | miàn | |
Bopomofo: | ㄇㄧㄢˋ | |
Wade–Giles: | mien4 | |
Cantonese Yale: | min6 | |
Jyutping: | min6 | |
Japanese Kana: | 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] | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
面 is also the 180th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Simplified Chinese, 面 is also used as the simplified form of 麵/麪 ("noodles" or "flour").
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a third grade kanji[2]
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