Kanji1 / 9
面 kanji
mask, face, features, surface
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
メンベン
Kun readings
おもおもてつら
Variant forms
靣Words with 面
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —半面識slight acquaintance
- —反面にon the other hand
- —百面相making different (comic) faces, esp. using small props
- —表面化coming to a head; coming to the surface; becoming an issue; breaking
- —表面上on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently
- —表面的superficial; apparent; seeming; surface; cosmetic
- —譜面台music stand
- —平面鏡plane mirror
- —平面形plane figure
- —平面図ground plan; plane figure
- —方面隊army
- —防毒面gas mask
- —面食いbeing attracted by physical looks only; person who puts much store by good looks
- —面相筆fine-point brushes
- —裏面史hidden historical background
- —不面目shame; disgrace
- —仮面劇masque; mask
- —面取りchamfering; beveling; bevelling; rounding the edges (of a vegetable); trimming the corners
- —一場面one scene (in play)
- —六面体hexahedron