{{Short description|Chinese character radical}} {{Infobox Kangxi radical |176|uni=9762 |meaning= face |pny= miàn |bopo= ㄇㄧㄢˋ |wade= mien4 |jyutping= min6 |yale= min6 |cn= |onyomi= メン men / ベン ben |kunyomi= おも omo / おもて omote |jp= 面/めん men |hang= 낯 nat<ref name="hanjatrek">{{cite web |url=http://www.hanja.pe.kr/han_3/h3_091.htm |title=Hanja History Trek - Chinese radical entries site |author=Oh Hyung Min |access-date=2011-04-07 }}</ref> |hanja= 면 myeon |hanviet= diện, miến }}
'''Radical 176''' or '''radical face''' ({{Lang|zh-Hant|面部}}) meaning '''"face"''' is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|面}} is also the 180th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Simplified Chinese, {{Lang|zh-Hans|面}} is also used as the simplified form of {{Lang|zh-Hans|麵}}/{{Lang|zh-Hans|麪}} ("noodles" or "flour").
==Evolution== <gallery> File:面-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:面-seal.svg|Small seal script character </gallery>
==Derived characters== {| class="wikitable" ! Strokes !! Characters |- | +0 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|面}} {{Linktext|靣}} (= 面) |- | +5 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靤}} (= {{Linktext|皰}} <small>→ 皮</small>) |- | +6 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靥}}<sup>SC</sup> (= 靨) |- | +7 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靦}} |- | +12 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靧}} |- | +14 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靨}} |}
{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/面}}
==Sinogram== The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}}</ref> It is a third grade kanji.<ref name=":0" />
==References== {{reflist}}
==Literature== *{{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }} *{{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}
==External links== {{Commons category|Radical 176}} *[https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=9762 Unihan Database - U+9762]
{{Kangxi Radicals}} {{Simplified Chinese radicals}}
Category:Kyōiku kanji 176 180