眄 · miàn · miǎn
to look askance; looking dull
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
to look askance; looking dull
- Mandarin
- miàn · miǎn
- Cantonese
- min5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 眄 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 면
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7704
- Radical
- 目 · 109
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 眄
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 丏 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 丏聲
Line 169 · ⿰目丏 · 丏聲 · source reference 0991040
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- menX · 彌殄 反切 · #1610
- Middle Chinese
- menH · 莫甸 反切 · #2707
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 10742 · menX = 山開四上先明 · menH = 山開四去先明
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- miàn miǎn
- kCantonese
- min5
- kDefinition
- to look askance; looking dull
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 109.4
- kTGH
- 2013:4188
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- miǎn 42472.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- miǎn 0785.040 · miàn 0787.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- miàn 252.020
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- miàn粵min5
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 彌殄 莫甸
- Kangxi positions
- 0802.120
- Guangyun positions
- 289.29 408.37
- GSR references
- 0247b
- Cangjie
- BUMLS
- Four-corner
- 6102.7