Kilo Lingo

面

miàn

Traditional: 面

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Translation

face, side, surface; (locative suffix in 里面, 外面)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 面

面

Examples

？

Is there anyone inside?

雨yǔ。

It's raining outside.

桌zhuō。

The book is on top of the table.

雨yǔ。

It's raining outside.

。

His face looks well today.

面 (miàn) means face, side, or surface, and serves as the standard locative suffix in directional words like 里面 (inside), 外面 (outside), 上面 (above), and 下面 (below).

Related words

后面

behind, at the back

里面

inside, interior, within

上面

above, on top, on the surface

外面

outside, exterior, outdoors

下面

below, under, beneath

Appears in 7 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 面.

里面lǐ miàninside, interior, within外面wài miànoutside, exterior, outdoors上面shàng miànabove, on top, on the surface后面hòu miànbehind, at the back下面xià miànbelow, under, beneath面前miàn qiánin front of, before (someone's face)见面jiàn miànto meet (in person)

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This word is part of lesson 101.