HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Food

面 miàn “noodles” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 面 means

  1. noodles
  2. face
  3. side
  4. surface
  5. aspect
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • top
  • classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc

How to say 面

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale面miàn4th tone, falling

面 in a sentence

  1. 我中午吃了一碗面。

    Wǒ zhōngwǔ chī le yì wǎn miàn.

    I had a bowl of noodles for lunch.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 进来吧，外面很冷。

    Jìnlái ba, wàimiàn hěn lěng.

    Come in, it’s cold outside.

    Sentence #693750 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我在里面等你。

    Wǒ zài lǐmiàn děng nǐ.

    I’ll wait for you inside.

    Sentence #9453413 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 面 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 面 (miàn) drawn as one shape
面miànface

面 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a face inside its outline.

How to write 面

面 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

面 (miàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 面 (miàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 面

Words with 面

前面qiánmiàn · front后面hòumiàn · back面条儿miàntiáor · noodles面条miàntiáo · noodles上面shàngmiàn · above下面xiàmiàn · below里面lǐmiàn · inside外面wàimiàn · outside面包miànbāo · bread见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody

More words: Food & Drink

咖啡kāfēi · coffee饭馆fànguǎn · restaurant红茶hóngchá · black tea绿茶lǜchá · green tea奶茶nǎichá · milk tea肉ròu · meat饱bǎo · eat until full菜单càidān · menu

FAQs

面 (miàn) means “noodles” or “face”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it miàn: miàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 面 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 面 from the suggestions. Typing mian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
面 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.