面
부수: 面
획수: 9획
面 has the meanings ‘face’, ‘surface’ and ‘aspect’.
面 = 丆 + 囗 + 目
X = distinguishing mark + semantic + semantic
• 丆 was simply added to the character for decoration.
• 囗 depicts a city border and represents the ‘border of the face’.
• 目 depicts an eye and is used to represent the features of a face.
Alternatively, some scholars take 囗 to represent a mask.
Evolution:
面 = ’person’s face’ ➔ ’surface’ ➔ ’aspect’
Mnemonic
Imagine you’re suddenly standing face-to-face 面 with a cyclops. You tremble in fear as you notice his menacing eye 目 and salient horn 丆 growing from his skull 囗.
Vocab
| 面接 | 면접 | face-to-face meeting; interview |
| 面談 | 면담 | interview, face-to-face talk |
| 正面 | 정면 | front; facade |
| 畵面 | 화면 | screen; image |
| 場面 | 장면 | scene |
| 面積 | 면적 | surface area; square measure |
| 表面 | 표면 | surface; outside |
| 圖面 | 도면 | floor plan |
| 凹面 | 요면 | concavity |
| 海面 | 해면 | sea level |
| 面目 | 면목 | appearance; characteristic; honour |
| 背面 | 배면 | back; rear |
| 內面 | 내면 | internal |
| 方面 | 방면 | direction; field |
| 側面 | 측면 | side, flank |
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Bibliography
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 704]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 395]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 面, 丆, 囗, 目].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 417]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.