miàn

flour

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
麥 meaning component

  Meaning component

mài

  

wheat

丏 sound component

  Sound component

miǎn

  

parapet

Evolution

麪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
麪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

miàn

flour, noodles, dough

() 

miàn

variant of |[miàn]

Most common words with 麪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

方面

respect

里面

inside

face

外面

outside

上面

on top of

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.3112% of movies

126th most common character in movies

74th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+9EAA

Shuowen

“麪,麥末也。从麥,丏聲。”


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