頂

Stroke order

頂 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一弓一月金 (MNMBC), four-corner 1128₆, composition ⿰丁頁)

• 𠽒, 㴿, 𬱎, 嵿, 𬗀

• 顶 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1399, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43335
• Dae Jaweon: page 1915, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4355, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9802

Historical forms of the character 頂
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *teːŋʔ) : phonetic 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“upper part”) (STEDT). The sense “damn” is a clipping of 頂你個肺／顶你个肺 (ding² nei⁵ go³ fai³).

頂

1. top of the head; crown
2. top; peak

   山頂／山顶  ―  shāndǐng  ―  mountain top

3. to carry on the head
4. to prop up; to support (from below)
5. to substitute; to replace
6. to retort; to talk back
7. to butt; to strike (with the head)
8. to withstand; to confront
9. most; exceedingly; best
10. Classifier for objects with a top, such as hats and palanquins. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

    兩頂帽／两顶帽 [Cantonese]  ―  loeng⁵ deng² mou^6-2   ―  two hats

    一頂轎子／一顶轿子  ―  yī dǐng jiàozi  ―  a palanquin

11. (Southern Min) Classifier for vehicles. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
12. (Southern Min) in front; ahead; above; before; previously
13. (chiefly Mainland China, Internet slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile; like; upvote
14. (Cantonese, mildly vulgar) damn!

    頂！我唔記得帶鎖匙出門口！ [Cantonese, trad.]
    顶！我唔记得带锁匙出门口！ [Cantonese, simp.]

    ding²! ngo⁵ m⁴ gei³ dak¹ daai³ so² si⁴ ceot¹ mun⁴ hau²!

    Damn! I’ve forgotten to take my key(s) out!

• (antonym(s) of “to upvote”): 踩 (cǎi)

• “Entry #8038”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. top, peak
2. to receive

• Go-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: いただく (itadaku, 頂く, Jōyō)、いただき (itadaki, 頂, Jōyō)

頂(いただき) • (itadaki) 

1. the top

   山(やま)の頂(いただき)

   yama no itadaki

   the top of a mountain

   頂(いただき)に立(た)つ

   itadaki ni tatsu

   stand on the top

• 底(そこ) (soko, “bottom”)

From Middle Chinese 頂 (MC tengX). Recorded as Middle Korean 뎌ᇰ (tyeng) (Yale: tyeng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

頂

Wikisource

頂 (eumhun 정수리 정 (jeongsuri jeong))

1. hanja form^? of 정 (“crown or top of the head”)
2. hanja form^? of 정 (“topmost point; peak”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

頂: Hán Nôm readings: đính, đảnh, đỉnh, điếng, đuểnh

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