Radical 176

面 靣
175 ⾮ ◄	176	► ⾰ 177
Pinyin :	miàn (= face)
Zhuyin :	ㄇ ㄧ ㄢ ˋ
Hiragana :	め ん men
Kanji :	面 men (= face)
Hangul :	낯
Sinocorean :	면 myeon (= face)
Codepoint :	U + 9762 9763
Stroke sequence :

Radical 176 , meaning " face ", is one of eleven of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with nine strokes.

With 4 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

Radical face increases only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 176th position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Sino-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in second place, under a completely different radical.

The character developed from the pictorial representation of a human face in which the eyes can be seen. There is a modern version with a square - symbol for "mouth" - inside the frame; although this character requires one less dash, it is also counted among those with nine dashes.

The face is very important to the Chinese. “Giving someone a face” means respecting someone's social position. “To lose face” means to be despised.

Character combinations ruled by radical 176

Strokes	character
+ 00	面 靣
+ 05	靤
+ 06	靥
+ 07	靦
+12	靧
+14	靨

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 176 is coded under the code point number 12.207 (U + 2FAF).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 38 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 30 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 176  - Graphic representations of Radikal 176

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 176 on page 127