miǎn
distant
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 面 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 緬
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Myanmar (or Burma) | ||
to commemorate | ||
Maine, US state | ||
distant | ||
Maine, US state |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.1945% of movies
2806th most common character in movies
2676th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DEC |
Shuowen | “緬,微絲也。从糸,面聲。” |
Sources
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