miàn

flour

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
mài wheat
Sound component
miǎn parapet

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmeːns

說文解字

《說文》:“麪,麥末也。从麥,丏聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica