miǎn, tiǎn
face to face
Phonosemantic compound. 面 represents the meaning and 見 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
4178th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9766 |
Shuowen | “靦，面見也。从面、見，見亦聲。《詩》曰：‘有靦面目’ ，或从旦。” |
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