臉

臉 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月人一人 (BOMO), four-corner 7828₆, composition ⿰⺼僉)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 996, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29954
• Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2117, character 4
• Unihan data for U+81C9

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ) : semantic ⺼ (“body part”) + phonetic 僉 (OC *skʰlam).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gram (“cheek; face”). Cognate with Tibetan འགྲམ་པ ('gram pa, “cheek”), འགྲམ་རུས ('gram rus, “cheekbone”) (Schuessler, 2007).

臉

1. (literary) cheek
2. face (Classifier: 張／张 m)

   洗臉／洗脸  ―  xǐliǎn  ―  to wash one's face

   臉上的笑容／脸上的笑容  ―  liǎn shàng de xiàoróng  ―  smile on one's face

3. (by extension) facial expression; complexion
4. (figurative) front part of something
5. (figurative) reputation; face; image

   賞臉／赏脸  ―  shǎngliǎn  ―  to honour somebody with one's presence

   丟臉／丢脸  ―  diūliǎn  ―  to lose face; to bring shame to oneself

   沒臉見人／没脸见人  ―  méi liǎn jiàn rén  ―  to be too embarrassed to face anybody

• (face):

臉

1. (obsolete) meat soup

• “臉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. cheek
2. face

• Go-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)←けむ (kemu, ancient)}、せん (sen)^{←せん (sen, historical)←せむ (semu, ancient)}、れん (ren)^{←れん (ren, historical)←れむ (remu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)←けむ (kemu, ancient)}、せん (sen)^{←せん (sen, historical)←せむ (semu, ancient)}、らん (ran)^{←らん (ran, historical)←らむ (ramu, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: れん (ren)
• Kun: まぶた (mabuta, 臉)

臉 (eumhun 뺨 검 (ppyam geom))

1. cheek
2. face

臉: Hán Nôm readings: kiểm, quặm, liển, liễn, liễm, kiễm

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