麵

See also: 面, 麺, 麪, and 麫
麵 U+9EB5, 麵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EB5
← 麴
[U+9EB4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 麶 →
[U+9EB6]

Translingual

Traditional 麵
Shinjitai 麺
Simplified 面

Han character

麵 (radical 199, 麥+9, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十弓一田中 (JNMWL) or 十水一田中 (JEMWL), four-corner 41246, composition ⿰麥面 or ⿺麥面)

References

  • KangXi: page 1514, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47827
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2043, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4605, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+9EB5

Chinese

trad. 麵/麪
simp. 面*
alt. forms 麺
麫
糆
𪋽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麵
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (面) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蝒 *men
緬 *menʔ
湎 *menʔ
愐 *menʔ
偭 *menʔ, *mens
勔 *menʔ
面 *mens
麵 *meːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *meːns) : semantic 麥 (“wheat”) + phonetic 面 (OC *mens). Originally 麪.

Pronunciation

Note: erhua-ed - “powder”.
Note:
  • mī - vernacular;
  • biān - literary.
Rime
Character 麵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /menH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /menH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mɛnH/
Li
Rong		 /menH/
Wang
Li		 /mienH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 miàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 麵
Reading # 1/1
No. 9100
Phonetic
component		 面
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 麫
Old
Chinese		 /*meːns/
Notes 同麪

Definitions

麵

  1. flour
    玉米麵 / 玉米面  ―  yùmǐmiàn  ―  corn flour
    麵粉 / 面粉  ―  miànfěn  ―  flour
  2. dough
  3. noodles (Classifier: 碗 m c; 條／条 m c; 個／个 c)
    湯麵 / 汤面  ―  tāngmiàn  ―  noodles in soup
  4. (Mainland China) powder
    藥麵兒 / 药面儿  ―  yàomiànr  ―  medicinal powder
  5. (Mainland China, dialectal) soft and floury
    這塊番薯很麵。 / 这块番薯很面。  ―  Zhè kuài fānshǔ hěn miàn.  ―  This piece of sweet potato is really soft and floury.

Compounds

See also

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

 麺

Kyūjitai

 麵

Kanji

麵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 麺)

  1. flour
  2. dough
  3. noodles

Readings

Korean

Hanja

麵 • (myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune–Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)

  1. wheat flour
  2. noodles

Vietnamese

Han character

麵 (diện, mì, miến)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.