面 miàn

1. miàn noun side; surface
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 面 (Guoyu '面' n 2; XHZD '面' 5)
2. miàn noun flour
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink , Concept: Grains 粮食
   Notes: Traditional: 麵; in the sense of 面粉 (Guoyu '麵' 1; XHZD '面' 8)
3. miàn noun Kangxi radical 176
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Traditional: 面; surface (Guoyu '面' n 7; ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '非' n 3)
4. miàn measure word unit
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: Traditional: 面; a measure word for flags, flag-like things, and mirrors (Guoyu '面' n 3; XHZD '面' 7)
5. miàn noun a rural district; a township
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: South Korea
   Notes: Hangul: 면; a Korean Hanja term
6. miàn noun face
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 面; in the sense of 面孔 (Guoyu '面' n 1; XHZD '面' 1)
7. miàn adverb face to face; in somebody's presence; facing
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 面; in the sense of 當面 (Guoyu '面' adv; XHZD '面' 3)
8. miàn verb to face in a certain direction
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 面; in the sense of 对着 (Guoyu '面' v 1; XHZD '面' 2)
9. miàn suffix side
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Traditional: 面; a localizing suffix, for example 里面 'inside' (Norman 1988, p. 162; XHZD '面' 6)
10. miàn noun noodles
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
    Notes: Traditional: 麵; in the sense of 面条; specifically noodles made from wheat (Guoyu '麵' 2; XHZD '面' 10)
11. miàn noun powder
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Traditional: 麵 (XHZD '面' 9)
12. miàn noun soft and mushy
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
    Notes: Traditional: 麵; of food (XHZD '面' 11)
13. miàn noun an aspect
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Traditional: 面 (Guoyu '面' n 5)
14. miàn noun a direction
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Traditional: 面; in the sense of 方向 (Guoyu '面' n 3)
15. miàn verb to meet
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 面; in the sense of 见面 (Guoyu '面' v 2)
16. miàn noun face; vaktra
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: vaktra, or: mukha, Japanese: men, or: ben (BCSD '面', p. 1257; Mahāvyutpatti 'vaktram'; MW 'vaktra'; SH '面', p. 317; Unihan '面')

Contained in

• 一面 one side ; simultaneously ; one time ; one point of view; one perspective ; one aspect ; whole face ; one side, simultaneously ; a single part; devotion to one object
• 面前一丝(面前一絲) the single thread before us
• 日面佛月面佛 Sun Facing the Buddha, Moon Facing the Buddha
• 瞋拳不打笑面 no smiling face will ever be struck by a fist of anger
• 头面礼(頭面禮) to prostrate
• 不看僧面看佛面 not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake ; if not for the sake of the monk, at least for that of the Buddha

Also contained in

资料介面 、 面霜 、 面貌 、 面谀 、 表面活化剂 、 面型 、 面叙 、 谋面 、 双凸面 、 斜管面 、 见过世面 、 附面层 、 黥面 、 丁丁炒面 、 面前 、 凸多面体 、 饧面 、 白面书生 、 面皮焦黄 、 掌子面 、 总平面图 、 票面值 、 被面 、 面巾 、 球面度 、 海平面 、 橡子面 、 面壁思过 、 面试 、 面额 、 门面 、 面黄肌瘦 、 九面体 、 螺旋面 、 北面 、 驳面子 、 面目全非 、 地面部队 、 投影面 、 铁面无私 、 烩面 、 蒙面 、 大地水准面 、 贴合面 、 两面派

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 1 Shiyi Mian Shen Zhou Xinjing Yi Shu 十一面神呪心經義疏 — count: 112
• Scroll 1 Defining the Image - Measurements in Image-Making (Fo Shuo Zaoxiang Liangdu Jing Jie) 佛說造像量度經解 — count: 58 , has English translation , has parallel version
• Scroll 4 Dharanisamgraha Sutra (Collected Dharanis Sutra) 陀羅尼集經 — count: 46 , has English translation
• Scroll 2 Māyājālamahātantra (Fo Shuo Yujia Da Jiao Wang Jing) 佛說瑜伽大教王經 — count: 39 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Mahayana Vajra Cudamani Bodhisattva Cultivation (Dasheng Jingang Jizhu Pusa Xiuxing Fen) 大乘金剛髻珠菩薩修行分 — count: 30
• Scroll 1 Shijiamouni Rulai Xiang Fa Mie Jin Zhi Ji 釋迦牟尼如來像法滅盡之記 — count: 25
• Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 25
• Scroll 1 Vajrabhairava (Fo Shuo Miao Jixiang Yujia Da Jiao Jingang Pei Luo Fu Lun Guan Xiang Chengjiu Yi Gui Jing) 佛說妙吉祥瑜伽大教金剛陪囉嚩輪觀想成就儀軌經 — count: 25
• Scroll 1 Mahāmaṇivipulavimānaviśvasupratiṣṭhitaguhyaparamarahasyakalparājadhāraṇī (Mou Li Mantuoluo Zhou Jing) 牟梨曼陀羅呪經 — count: 24
• Scroll 4 One Syllable Buddhosnisa Wheel Turning Ruler Sutra (Yizi Fo Ding Lunwang Jing) 一字佛頂輪王經 — count: 22

Collocations

• 四方面 (四方面) 於四方面 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 5 — count: 40
• 面诃 (面訶) 世尊面訶烏陀夷曰 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 19
• 世尊面 (世尊面) 世尊面訶烏陀夷曰 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 16
• 镜面 (鏡面) 乃往過去有王名鏡面 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 19 — count: 13
• 人面 (人面) 人面亦方 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 18 — count: 11
• 面王 (面王) 鏡面王即却彼象 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 19 — count: 10
• 覆面 (覆面) 舐耳覆面 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 13 — count: 9
• 六面 (六面) 汝必為六面禮 — Śṛgālavāda Sūtra (Shan Sheng Zi Jing) 善生子經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
• 面北 (面北) 其面北向 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 4
• 澡面 (澡面) 我欲飲澡面 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 4