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
- —平面交差grade crossing; level crossing
- —海面更正reduction (of pressure) to mean sea level
- —海面変動sea level change
- —界面化学surface chemistry
- —界面活性surface active
- —界面現象interfacial phenomenon; surface phenomenon
- —面従後言pretending to obey someone to his face but badmouthing him behind his back
- —面目一新undergoing a complete change in appearance; changing something out of all recognition; a rise in one's reputation
- —面目次第face; honour; honor; reputation; prestige; dignity; credit
- —面目躍如demonstrative of one's worth; worthy of one's reputation; living up to one's name; characteristically masterful; bolstering one's reputation; enhancing one's prestige; winning one honour; doing one credit
- —準備書面preparatory document; legal brief
- —因果覿面the swiftness of retributive justice
- —仮面夫婦couple who only go through the motions of being husband and wife
- —仮面浪人student who is trying to get into their preferred college while already enrolled at another college
- —顔面紅潮one's face turning red; with a flush on one's face
- —顔面蒼白one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face
- —鬼面仏心having the face of a devil and the heart of Buddha; having a stern face but a tender heart
- —局面打開breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation
- —全面対決all-out confrontation; total confrontation
- —全面撤退total (full-scale) withdrawal; complete pullout (pullback)