liǎn

face

Character data

Radical ⾁ (130.13)
Strokes 17
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

臉 liǎn
  1. 1. face
  2. 2. CL zhāng,

Words containing 臉

Word Meaning
pretty boy; attractive young man (usually derog.); gigolo
erhua variant of xiǎo bái liǎn
If girl smiles, marriage likely; sign of success
to bring shame to; to disgrace; to smear
to fret; to worry oneself sick
to look miserable; to look anxious (idiom)
lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities
to be unable to keep a straight face (idiom)
to scowl; to pull a long face
humiliation; to lose face
facepalm; to do a facepalm
to cover the face; to bury one's face in one's hands
to shed all pretense of cordiality
(coll.) to look alike; to be a spitting image of
strikes you in the face
(bird species of China) white-winged scoter (Melanitta deglandi)
to have the nerve (e.g. to ask sth outrageous)
to put on a straight, stern or blank face
rosy-cheeked (idiom)
(bird species of China) rufous-faced warbler (Abroscopus albogularis)
a person's face as seen from the front
to be totally shameless; to know no shame
brazen faced (idiom); shameless
ashamed; embarrassed; not daring (out of shame)