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U+9EB5, 麵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EB5

[U+9EB4]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9EB6]

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

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

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. /
simp. *
variant forms


𪋽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*men
*menʔ
*menʔ
*menʔ
*menʔ, *mens
*menʔ
*mens
*meːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *meːns) : semantic  (wheat) + phonetic  (OC *mens). Originally .

Pronunciation


Note: erhua-ed - “powder”.
Note:
  • mī - vernacular;
  • biān - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9100
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*meːns/
Notes

Definitions

  1. flour
    玉米 / 玉米   yùmǐmiàn   corn flour
    /    miànfěn   flour
  2. dough
  3. noodles (Classifier: m c;  m c;  c)
    /    tāngmiàn   noodles in soup
  4. (Mainland China) powder
    /    yàomiànr   medicinal powder
  5. (Mainland China, dialectal) soft and floury
    白薯 / 白薯   Zhè kuài báishǔ hěn miàn.   This piece of sweet potato is really soft and floury.
  6. (Mandarin, colloquial, of a person) weak; timid; indecisive; slow

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 麵粉 (“(wheat) flour”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 麵粉
Mandarin Beijing 白麵,
Taiwan 麵粉
Harbin 白麵,
Jinan 白麵,
Muping
Luoyang 白麵,
Wanrong
Xi'an , 麥麵
Xining 白麵, 麵粉
Xuzhou 麵粉, , 白麵
Yinchuan
Lanzhou 白麵
Ürümqi 白麵,
Wuhan 灰麵, 麵粉
Chengdu 灰麵, 麵粉
Guiyang 灰麵
Liuzhou 灰麵, 麵粉
Yangzhou 乾麵
Nanjing 乾麵, 麵粉
Hefei 灰麵
Cantonese Guangzhou 麵粉, 灰麵
Hong Kong 麵粉
Dongguan 麵粉
Yangjiang 麵粉
Gan Nanchang 灰麵
Lichuan 麵灰
Pingxiang 灰麵
Hakka Meixian 麵粉, 麥粉
Yudu 麵粉
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 麵粉
Liudui (S. Sixian) 麵粉
Hsinchu (Hailu) 麵粉
Dongshi (Dabu) 麵粉
Hsinchu (Raoping) 麵粉
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 麵粉
Huizhou Jixi 灰麵, , 白麵
Jin Taiyuan , 好麵, 白麵
Xinzhou , 好麵
Min Bei Jian'ou 麵灰
Min Dong Fuzhou 麵粉
Min Nan Xiamen 麵粉
Quanzhou 麵粉
Zhangzhou 麵粉
Taipei 麵粉
Kaohsiung 麵粉
Tainan 麵粉
Taichung 麵粉
Hsinchu 麵粉
Lukang 麵粉
Sanxia 麵粉
Yilan 麵粉
Kinmen 麵粉
Magong 麵粉
Chaozhou 麵粉, 麵灰
Haikou 麵粉,
Pinghua Nanning 麵粉
Wu Shanghai 麵粉, 乾麵
Suzhou 麵餑, 麵粉
Hangzhou 麵粉
Wenzhou 麵粉, 飛麵
Chongming 乾麵
Danyang 麵白, 麵糏
Jinhua 飛麵, 麥粉
Ningbo 麵粉
Xiang Changsha 灰麵
Shuangfeng 灰麵
Loudi 灰麵粉
Dialectal synonyms of 麵條 (“noodle”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 麵條,
Mandarin Beijing 麵條兒,
Taiwan 麵條,
Harbin 麵條兒
Jinan 麵條兒,
Muping
Luoyang 麵條兒,
Wanrong
Xi'an
Xining 麵條兒
Xuzhou 麵條兒, 麵條子
Yinchuan 麵條子,
Lanzhou 麵條子
Ürümqi 麵條子,
Wuhan , 麵條
Chengdu
Guiyang
Liuzhou 麵條,
Yangzhou
Nanjing , 麵條
Hefei 麵條,
Cantonese Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Dongguan
Yangjiang
Gan Nanchang
Lichuan
Pingxiang
Hakka Meixian , 麵條
Yudu
Miaoli (N. Sixian)
Liudui (S. Sixian)
Hsinchu (Hailu)
Dongshi (Dabu) 大麵,
Hsinchu (Raoping)
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 大麵
Huizhou Jixi
Jin Taiyuan 麵條子, 麵條,
Xinzhou 麵條子, 條條子麵, 條子麵,
Min Bei Jian'ou
Min Dong Fuzhou
Min Nan Xiamen
Quanzhou
Zhangzhou
Yilan
Penang
Singapore
Philippines (Manila)
Chaozhou
Haikou , 麵條
Pinghua Nanning
Wu Shanghai , 麵條
Suzhou
Hangzhou
Wenzhou
Chongming
Danyang
Jinhua
Ningbo
Xiang Changsha
Shuangfeng

Compounds

See also

References


Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

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

  1. flour
  2. dough
  3. noodles

Readings

  • Go-on: めん (men)
  • Kan-on: べん (ben)
  • Kun: むぎこ (mugiko, )

Korean

Hanja

(myeon) (hangeul )

  1. wheat flour
  2. noodles

Vietnamese

Han character

(miến)

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