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麵
麵
Translingual
| Traditional | 麵 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 麺 |
| Simplified | 面 |
Glyph origin
| 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).
Han character
麵 (radical 199 麥+9, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十弓一田中 (JNMWL), four-corner 41246, composition ⿰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 |
|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: mien4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miann
- IPA (key): /mi̯ɛn⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: min6
- Yale: mihn
- Cantonese Pinyin: min6
- IPA (key): /miːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mien
- Hakka Romanization System: mien
- Hagfa Pinyim: mian4
- IPA: /mi̯en⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mī / biān
- Tâi-lô: mī / biān
- Phofsit Daibuun: mi, bien
- IPA (Xiamen): /mi²²/, /biɛn²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /mi⁴¹/, /biɛn⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /mi²²/, /biɛn²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /mi³³/, /biɛn³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /mi³³/, /biɛn³³/
- Note: mī - vernacular; biān - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: min7
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mīⁿ
- IPA (key): /mĩ¹¹/
- (Hokkien)
| 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
- flour
- dough
- noodles
- (mainland China) powder
- 藥麵兒 / 药面儿 ― yàomiànr ― medicinal powder
- (mainland China, dialectal) soft and floury
Compounds
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References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #13088”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.