麺 Noodles

Radical Combination

• 麦

  Wheat
• 面

  Face

Meaning

Primary

Noodles

Mnemonic

One way to put wheat in your face is with noodles.

Hints

Imagine yourself shoveling piles of wheaty noodles into your face. They're so wheaty and delicious!

Readings

On’yomi

めん

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Once you're done stuffing noodles in your face, you can use your leftover noodles to make noodlemen (めん).

Hints

Did you ever use to make pictures with your food? (Or maybe you still do? We won't judge.) Imagine you're doing that again, and think about how lifelike your noodle men are!