麵

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

面

🇨🇳

noodles

HSK 10

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miàn

メン、ベン

むぎこ

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

Components

Traditional (麵)

麥 wheat+ 面 face-to-face =

麵 noodles

麥 Meaning component

wheat

面 Phonetic component

miàn face-to-face

variant of 麵|面[miàn]

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Simplified (面)

◎ characterless component+ 目 eye =

面 face

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts the outline of a face.

目 Iconic component

mù eye

Notes

Similar Characters

嗇 thrifty (trad)嘜 mark (iii) (trad)麩 bran (trad)麪 flour (trad)麯 yeast (trad)麴 leaven (trad)圙 enclosed pasture 湎 flushed with drink 緬 Burma (trad)缅 think (simp)腼 modest (simp)靥 dimples (simp)靦 face to face (trad)

Chinese

面 / 麵 [miàn]

flour; noodles; (of food) soft (not crunchy); (slang) (of a person) ineffectual; spineless

Japanese

麺、麵 (old) 、麪 (rare) めん同音

noun

noodles
archaic flour

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

麺はふつう小麦粉から作られる。

Noodles are usually made from wheat.

CHINESE WORDS (120)

面包 [miànbāo] #2,094

bread

丁丁炒面 [dīngdīngchǎomiàn]

chopped fried noodles

下面 [xiàmiàn] #833

to boil noodles

中筋面粉 [zhōngjīnmiànfěn]

yi mein (or yee mee or yee-fu noodles etc), a variety of Cantonese egg noodle

低筋面粉 [dījīnmiànfěn]

low-gluten flour

光面 [guāngmiàn] #51,726

plain noodles in broth

公仔面 [gōngzǎimiàn]

brand of Hong Kong instant noodles

冷面 [lěngmiàn] #24,310

naengmyeon (Korean dish based on cold noodles in soup)

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JAPANESE WORDS (3)

KOREAN WORDS (1)

naengmyeon; cold buckwheat noodles