Radical 176 Explained

Uni:9762
Meaning:face
Pny:miàn
Bopo:ㄇㄧㄢˋ
Wade:mien4
Jyutping:min6
Yale:min6
Onyomi:メン men / ベン ben
Kunyomi:おも omo / おもて omote
Jp:面/めん men
Hang:낯 nat[1]
Hanja:면 myeon
Hanviet:diện, miến

Radical 176 or radical face meaning "face" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

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, is also used as the simplified form of / ("noodles" or "flour").

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 (=面)
+5 (= -> )
+6 SC (=靨)
+7
+12
+14

Sinogram

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

Literature

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hanja History Trek - Chinese radical entries site . Oh Hyung Min . 2011-04-07 .
  2. Web site: The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji . March 24, 2022 . 2023-05-06 . www.kanshudo.com.