miǎn

distant

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

面 sound component

  Sound component

miàn

  

face

Evolution

缅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
缅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
缅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

miǎn

distant, remote; think of; distant; remote; detailed

() 

Miǎn

Myanmar (formerly Burma) (abbr. for 緬甸|缅甸[Miǎn​diàn])

Most common words with 缅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

缅甸

Myanmar (or Burma)

缅怀

to commemorate

缅因州

Maine, US state

distant

缅因

Maine, US state

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1945% of movies

2806th most common character in movies

2676th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+7F05


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