# Radical 176

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{{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](/source/face)"''' is one of the 11 [Kangxi radical](/source/Kangxi_radical)s (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 [strokes](/source/stroke_(CJK_character)).

In the ''[Kangxi Dictionary](/source/Kangxi_Dictionary)'', there are 66 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this [radical](/source/Radical_(Chinese_characters)).

{{Lang|zh-Hans|面}} is also the 180th indexing component in the ''[Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components](/source/Table_of_Indexing_Chinese_Character_Components)'' predominantly adopted by [Simplified Chinese](/source/Simplified_Chinese_characters) dictionaries published in [mainland China](/source/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](/source/Oracle_bone_script) character
File:面-seal.svg|[Small seal script](/source/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](/source/Radical_107)</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](/source/Chinese_character). It is one of the [kyōiku kanji](/source/ky%C5%8Diku_kanji) or kanji taught in elementary school in [Japan](/source/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](/source/Abbeville_Publishing_Group_(Abbeville_Press%2C_Inc.)) |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](/source/O'Reilly_Media) |location= [Sebastopol, Calif.](/source/Sebastopol%2C_California) |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
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