What 麺 means
In Japanese, 麺 means noodles, especially in food names.
麥 is an older character meaning “wheat”; 面 supplies the sound. Compounds include 素麺 (sōmen), 乾麺 (dried noodles), and 拉麺 (ramen); the original sense concerned wheat noodles.
A sealed bowl from the ancient settlement of Lajia in China held millet noodles dating to about 4,000 years ago—long before this Japanese spelling.
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Who writes 麺
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-9Eb5
Traditional Chinese uses 麵; Japanese 麺 is its corresponding simplified form, with the same noodle and flour sense.
CJK Unified Ideograph-9Eaa
Chinese dictionaries record 麪 as a variant related to 麵 and 面 in the wheat-flour and noodle character family.
CJK Unified Ideograph-9762
面 is another related Chinese form; in food contexts it can mean flour or noodles.
Combination ideas
3sōmen, a kind of thin wheat noodle.
dried noodles.
ramen, a Japanese noodle dish.
Questions people ask
1Why does 麺 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 麺
- Also called
- めん · men · 麵
- Search it as
- noodles · ramen · soba · udon · somen
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
麺CSS
\9EBAJapanese IME
Type めん, then select 麺 from the conversion candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
麺
HTML hex
麺
CSS content
content: "\9EBA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%BA%BA
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.