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)
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On readings
メンベン
Kun readings
おもおもてつら
Variant forms
靣Words with 面
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —研磨面polished surface; ground surface
- —矢状面sagittal plane
- —双曲面hyperboloid
- —側面音lateral
- —般若面hannya; mask of a grinning, horned demoness which represents a woman's rage and jealousy; dreadful face (esp. of a woman driven mad by jealousy); terrifying facial expression
- —偽面梟Oriental bay owl (Phodilus badius)
- —南面梟grass owl (Tyto capensis); African grass owl
- —大面梟masked owl (Tyto novaehollandiae); Australian masked owl
- —東面梟eastern grass owl (Tyto longimembris); Australian grass owl
- —面がねmetal bars of a face guard (kendo)
- —接平面tangent plane; tangential plane
- —人面瘡mythological growth (tumour) that takes the shape of a human face
- —月面車lunar rover; Moon buggy
- —等圧面isobaric surface; constant-pressure surface; barometric surface
- —平面波plane wave
- —面積分surface integral
- —偏波面plane of polarisation; plane of polarization
- —九面体enneahedron; nonahedron
- —十面体decahedron
- —面出しdisplaying books face-outwards