Radical 176

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
Radical 176 (U+2FAF)
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").

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0面 靣 (=面)
+5靤 (=皰 -> 皮)
+6靥SC (=靨)
+7靦
+12靧
+14靨

References

  1. Oh Hyung Min. "Hanja History Trek - Chinese radical entries site". Retrieved 2011-04-07.

Literature

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