HSK Guide

部首 176the face; surface, side; a flour noodle

miàn (fourth tone, falling)

the face; surface, side; a flour noodle

部首 1769 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

A face outlined by its own silhouette, an eye marked inside to stand for the whole — the contour of the head drawn around the one feature that says most about a person looking back at you. It broadened early to any front-facing surface or side, giving 外面, the outside, the outer face of a thing, and 面对, to face, to confront; a separate, later borrowing of the same sound gave it flour and, by extension, 面条, noodles, which share nothing with the face but the sound of the word.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.