麺

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See also: 麵
麺 U+9EBA, 麺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EBA
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 麻 →

Translingual

Traditional 麵
Shinjitai 麺
Simplified 面

Glyph origin

Variant of 麵, simplified from 麵 (麥 → 麦). The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

Han character

麺 (Kangxi radical 199, 麦+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手水一田中 (QEMWL), composition ⿰麦面(GV) or ⿺麦面(J))

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1514, character 57
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 7, page 4605, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+9EBA

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 麺 – see 麵 (“flour; wheat noodles; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 麵).

Usage notes

Mostly seen in cursive scripts.

Japanese

Shinjitai

麺

Kyūjitai

麵

Kanji

麺

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 麵)

  1. flour
  2. noodles

Readings

Usage notes

This character was added to the Jōyō kanji list in 2010 and adopted this simplified form. Before 2010 the unsimplified form 麵 was the 印(いん)刷(さつ)標(ひょう)準(じゅん)字(じ)体(たい) (insatsu hyōjun jitai), and the simplified form 麺 was a 簡(かん)易(い)慣(かん)用(よう)字(じ)体(たい) (kan'i kan'yō jitai).

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
麺
めん
Grade: S
goon
Alternative spellings
麵 (kyūjitai)
麪 (rare)
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From Middle Chinese 麵 (MC menH).

Pronunciation

Noun

麺(めん) • (men) 

  1. noodles
    Synonym: 麺類 (menrui)
  2. (visual kei fandom slang) Short for メンバー (menbā).
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
麺
むぎこ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
麵 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 麺 – see the following entry.
【麦粉むぎこ】
flour made from dry-cultivated grass grain: wheat, barley, rye, oat
(more commonly) wheat flour
(This term, 麺, is an alternative spelling (uncommon) of the above term.)

Usage notes

Uncommon spelling for the flour sense, possibly due to the ambiguity in reading and sense. For the flour sense, the 麦粉 spelling is more common.

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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