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
- —猿面冠者young person with a monkey-like face (nickname for Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
- —ソフト面abstract side of things (such as personnel, skill, information; as opposed to physical things)
- —ハード面tangible side of things (such as equipment and facilities; as opposed to the abstract side)
- —表面利率coupon rate
- —投影面積projected area
- —プラス面advantage; upside; plus side; positive aspect; benefit
- —日面通過transit of a planet over the solar disk; solar transit
- —両面羊歯upside-down fern (Arachniodes standishii)
- —二十面体icosahedron
- —十二面体dodecahedron
- —顔面騎乗facesitting (sex act)
- —画面共有screen sharing
- —像面湾曲curvature of field (optics)
- —全面協力full cooperation
- —画面構成screen layout (film, television); window layout (computer); photo layout; page layout
- —洗面用具toiletries
- —下面発酵bottom fermentation (brewing)
- —面倒がるto begrudge doing; to find bothersome
- —正面から(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; eye to eye; from the front
- —覆面作家anonymous author; pseudonymous author; writer who conceals his identity