麺 Kanji: Meaning, Readings, Stroke Order

Readings

On readingメン、ベン

Jōyō Grade 8Level 40

Meanings

noodlesRtK

flour

Synonyms

Homonyms

ⓘ

Same reading (めん)

Radicals and components

Radical麥wheat

Components

How it's built

麺

→
- →
→

Mnemonic (RtK)

ⓘ

barley · grow up · walking legs (儿) · mask · hundred · one (一) · ceiling (冖) · drop (丶) · pent in (囗) · eye (目)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2040

Compound words

拉麺ラーメン

ramen; Chinese-style noodles

noodles made from regular flour and horse chestnut flour

橡麺とちめん

noodles made from regular flour and horse chestnut flour

bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt

麺碼めんま

bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt

麺麭めんぽう

bread

冷麺れいめん

cold noodles (in Korean style)

老麺ラーメン

ramen

拌麺ばんめん

noodles mixed with several ingredients (Chinese)

sweet flour paste (Chinese seasoning)

栃麺棒とちめんぼう

rolling pin for making horse chestnut noodles

棊子麺きしめん

noodles made in flat strips

炸醤麺ジャージャーめん

zhajiangmian (dish of ground pork over wheat noodles)

Additional Examples

麺はふつう小麦粉から作られる。

Noodles are usually made from wheat.tatoeba

手打ち風機械製麺

Machine-made hand-made style noodleswiki

ゆで麺・ゆでそば

Pre-boiled buckwheat noodleswiki

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Noodles. Wheat 麦 + 面 (surface) — flour dough rolled out flat and cut into strands.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 麺

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step