Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
face 面 (靣)
Parts:
Variants:
mask, face, features, surface
Kun:
おもおもてつら
On:
メンベン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
186 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 面 【メン】 face, mask, face guard, striking the head (in kendo), surface (esp. a geometrical surface), page, aspect, facet, side, chamfer, counter for broad, flat objects, levels or stages, e.g. in a video game
  • 面会 【メンカイ】 meeting (face-to-face), seeing, visit, interview
  • 平面 【ヘイメン】 level surface, plane
  • 対面 【タイメン】 meeting face-to-face, seeing in person, facing (each other), opposing (traffic, etc.), confronting

Kun reading compounds

  • 面 【おもて】 face, surface, mask (esp. a noh or kyogen mask)
  • 面影 【おもかげ】 face, looks, countenance, vestige, trace, reminder
  • 水の面 【みのも】 surface of the water, face of the water
  • 面 【おもて】 face, surface, mask (esp. a noh or kyogen mask)
  • 面伏せ 【おもてぶせ】 being so embarrassed as to keep one's face down
  • 細面 【ほそおもて】 slender face
  • 面 【つら】 face, mug, surface, cheek meat, cheek, cheeks, surrounding area
  • 面当て 【つらあて】 spiteful remarks
  • 川面 【かわも】 river surface, surface of a river
  • 赤面 【あかつら】 red face, villain (in kabuki, jōruri, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 ずら、 ほおつき、 も
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mian4
Korean:
myeon

Spanish

  • cara
  • semblante
  • superficie

Portuguese

  • máscara
  • rosto
  • recursos
  • superfície

French

  • masque
  • face
  • traits
  • surface
322 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
417 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
395 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
165 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5087 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
321 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1002 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
904 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.16 Japanese for Busy People
274 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
274 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
438 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1876 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2590 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1324 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1796 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1910 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42618 Morohashi
2087 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6566 New Nelson (John Haig)
1892 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2039 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
117 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
347 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3176 2001 Kanji
3s6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-7 SKIP code
3-5-4 SKIP code
1060.0 Four corner code
1-44-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9762 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
forget
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
1129 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 忘年会 【ボウネンカイ】 year-end party, "forget-the-year" party, bōnenkai
  • 忘却 【ボウキャク】 lapse of memory, forgetting completely, (consigning to) oblivion
  • 両忘 【リョウボウ】 detachment from dichotomies, detachment from objectivity and subjectivity
  • 備忘 【ビボウ】 reminder

Kun reading compounds

  • 忘れる 【わすれる】 to forget, to leave carelessly, to be forgetful of, to forget about, to forget (an article)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wang4, wang2
Korean:
mang

Spanish

  • olvidar
  • dejar atrás

Portuguese

  • Esquecer

French

  • oublier
986 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
974 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1095 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
291 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1004 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
528 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1374 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1461 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
209 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
772 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2529 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1285 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1753 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
603 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10333 Morohashi
2036 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1784 New Nelson (John Haig)
596 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
640 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
855 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
458 2001 Kanji
2j5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-5 SKIP code
0033.1 Four corner code
1-43-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5fd8 Unicode hex code