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Mythic Mandarin

当面 (dāng miàn): meaning and stroke order

当面 (dāng miàn) means to sb's face, in sb's presence.

当面

Simplified
当面
Traditional
當面
Pinyin
dāng miàn

Stroke order of 当面

当

  • dāng (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)
  • dāng to be; to act as
  • dàng at or in the very same...; suitable
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 噹

Stroke by stroke

面

  • miàn face; side
  • miàn variant of 麵|面[mian4]
  • miàn flour; noodles
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 麪

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 当面

  1. dāng miàn Traditional 當面
    • to sb's face
    • in sb's presence

Radicals of the characters

当
Radical 彐 (Kangxi radical 58) · 6 strokes
面
Radical 面 (Kangxi radical 176) · 9 strokes · 丆 on top, 囬 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

当面 in our stories

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  • 她到处找老鲁，想当面说声谢谢，却看见他坐在医疗帐篷里，膝盖上敷着冰袋。

    tā dàochù zhǎo Lǎo Lǔ xiǎng dāngmiàn shuō shēng xièxie què kànjiàn tā zuò zài yīliáo zhàngpeng lǐ xīgài shàng fū zhe bīngdài

    She looked everywhere for Old Lu to thank him in person, and found him sitting in the medical tent with an ice pack on his knee.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 当面

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).