Surface

Surface

omote, omo, mo, tsura, men

We have two characters reading omote. Today’s character and this one:

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by Nao

Both mean surface, face and facet. Each of them has different meanings, too. Today’s one means aspect while the other means the outside of the house or a table, that is, a written set of facts and figures arranged in columns and rows.

There are some varieties of words including today’s character.

Masks you wear over your face to masquerade are kamen. Some unabashed people have tetsumenpi, or an iron mask. Menboku is pride. “Menboku yaku jo” is revelation of original liveliness.

The ground is jimen. The “ji” of jimen is the voiced sound of chi. The surface of a river is kawamo.

The opposite side of something is hanmen.

A serious person is criticized as majime.

Menseki is area, acreage. We use the word in math.

 

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1. Draw the horizontal stroke on the top.
2. Draw the sweeping dot. This dot goes toward the next stroke, looking like a quotation mark.
3. Draw the vertical line, which is the left side of the rectangle.
4. Draw the upper and right sides of the rectangle.
5. Draw the vertical stroke slightly left of center.
6. Draw the vertical stroke slightly right of center.
7. Draw the upper horizontal stroke between the vertical strokes previously written.
8. Draw the horizontal stroke below the previous stroke.
9. Draw the horizontal line at the bottom.