face, expression
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
時々、彼のまじめな顔をまねします。ただの冗談です。
Tokidoki, kare no majime na kao o manemasu. Tada no joudan desu.
Sometimes I imitate his serious face. Just for fun.
でも今日は、ルーカスさんの顔色がよくありませんでした。
Demo kyou wa, Rūkasu-san no kaoiro ga yoku arimasen deshita.
Except today, Lucas wasn't looking too good.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0