腼 · miǎn
modest
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
modest
- Mandarin
- miǎn
- Cantonese
- min5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+817C
- Radical
- 肉 · 130
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 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 腼
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- miǎn
- kCantonese
- min5
- kDefinition
- modest
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 130.9
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+817C
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+817C
- kTGH
- 2013:5519
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- miǎn 32094.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- miǎn 0785.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- miǎn 251.200
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- miǎn粵min5