• akakunai@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      In Japanese, 面 is indeed men but I haven’t seen it used for noodles. It is usually used for face, mask, (rarely) man.

      麺 is the kanji for noodles (notice that 面 is a radical). But, noodle is also often just written in kana as either めん or メン.

      Note I am not a native speaker, so not totally confident.

      I believe 面 is used for noodles in Mandarin…?

      • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Small nitpick: Mandarin is the name of the spoken language. The written language you are talking about is called simplified Chinese, as opposed to traditional Chinese used in Taiwan (who also speak Mandarin).