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面めん
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Meanings
Noun
1. face
2. mask; face guard
3. striking the head (in kendo)
4. surface (esp. a geometrical surface)
5. page
Noun
Suffix
6. aspect; facet; side
7. chamfer
Counter
8. counter for broad, flat objects, levels or stages, e.g. in a video game
Kanji used
面surface
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary
社しゃ会かい面めん
social page (of newspaper); local news page
Noun
正しょう面めん
front; frontage; facade; main
Noun
方ほう面めん
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter; aspect; angle
Noun
反はん面めん教きょう師し
bad example from which one can learn; good example of what not to do (esp. how not to behave); negative example
Noun
面めん食くい
being attracted by physical looks only; person who puts much store by good looks
Noun
面めん取とり
chamfering; beveling; bevelling; rounding the edges (of a vegetable); trimming the corners
Noun
水すい平へい面めん
horizontal plane; level surface
Noun
格こう子し面めん
lattice plane
Noun
軍ぐん事じ面めん
military aspect
Noun
傾けい斜しゃ面めん
inclined plane; slope
Noun
十じゅう一いち面めん観かん音のん
eleven-faced Avalokiteshvara; eleven-faced Kannon
Noun
切せつ断だん面めん
(cross) section (e.g. in a drawing); transverse section; cutting plane
Noun
Examples54
The man wore a mask of a tiger.
A gentle wind made ripples on the surface of the pond.
In a way, life is a cruel thing. It holds major problems in store for each one of us.
Two men met face to face.
The wind rippled the surface of the water.
Ships can't rival aircraft for speed.