面 — mask, face, features

めん面 mask

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes internet

U+9762 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #186 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2039 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #176

Meanings

mask
face
features
surface

word

めん men On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

面(めん) men face 画(が) 面(めん) gamen screen 場(ば) 面(めん) bamen scene 表(ひょう) 面(めん) hyoumen surface 方(ほう) 面(めん) houmen direction 全(ぜん) 面(めん) zenmen the whole surface 当(とう) 面(めん) toumen for the time being 正(しょう) 面(めん) shoumen front

おも omo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

面(おも) 白(しろ) い omoshiroi interesting 面(おも) 白(しろ) omoshiro interesting

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

真面目(まじめ) majime serious

Appears in idioms

四面楚歌四字熟語

four sides, Chu songs

反面教師四字熟語

anti, mask, teach, expert

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Atomic component This kanji has no further breakdown — it's a primitive building block used to compose others.

Used as component in (1)

めん麺 noodles

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#176 面 face