| noodle |
| 1. 名词. 麵 | |
| Components |
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| 面 |
| 1. (literary or dialectal) face | |
| 面 帶 笑容 - miàn dài xiàoróng - to have a smile on one's face | |
| 你 塊 面 有 笪 嘢。 - There's something on your face. | |
| 2. surface; top; face | |
| 水面 - shuǐmiàn - water surface | |
| 路面 - lùmiàn - road surface | |
| 3. aspect; side; respect | |
| 全面 - quánmiàn - overall | |
| 4. right side; cover; outside | |
| 5. (geometry) face | |
| 長方體 有 六 個 面。 ( Chángfāngtǐ yǒu liù ge miàn.) - A cuboid has six faces. | |
| 6. (Cantonese, Singapore, &, Penang Hokkien) dignity; reputation; face | |
| 冇面min6-2 - mou5 min6-2 - to lose face; to be embarrassed, C | |
| 7. to meet | |
| 面世 - miànshì - to come out, lit=to meet the world | |
| 8. face-to-face | |
| 面談 - miàntán - to talk with someone face to face | |
| 面告 - miàngào - to inform face to face | |
| 9. to face | |
| 面壁 - miànbì - to face the wall | |
| 背 山 面 水 - bèi shān miàn shuǐ - backing on to a mountain and facing a body of water | |
| 10. (suffix used to form a noun of locality) | |
| 前面 - qiánmiàn - in front | |
| 上面 - shàngmiàn - higher place | |
| 西面 - xīmiàn - west | |
| 11. Short for 面試, interview | |
| HR面 - tr=HRmiàn - | |
| 一 面 國旗 - yī miàn guóqí - a national flag | |
| 一 面 鼓 - yī miàn gǔ - a drum | |
| 我 和 他 只 見 過guo 一 面。 (Wǒ hé tā zhǐ jiàn guo yī miàn.) - I have only met him once. | |
| 12. Simplified form of 麵 | |
| 条 |
| 1. Variant of 條 | |
