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Translingual
Han character
頤 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸中一月金 (SLMBC), four-corner 71786, composition ⿰𦣞頁(GT) or ⿰𦣝頁(JK))
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1403, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43455
- Dae Jaweon: page 1920, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4371, character 11
- Unihan data for U+9824
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 茝
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*kʰljɯːʔ, *kljɯʔ
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| 洍
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*ljɯʔ, *lɯ
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| 姬
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*klɯ, *lɯ
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| 宧
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*lɯ
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| 頤
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*lɯ
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| 弬
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*lɯ
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May have originally been written 𦣞, a pictogram (象形) of a chin, in which case the modern form is an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lɯ) : phonetic 𦣞 (, “chin”) + semantic 頁 (“head”).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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頤
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yí
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ yi ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*(r)ə/
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| English
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chin
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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頤
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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14884
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Phonetic
component
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頤
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Rime
group
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之
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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飴
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Old
Chinese
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/*lɯ/
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| Notes
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說文正體無頁此篆文
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Definitions
頤
- (literary) chin; jaw; cheek
- (literary) to nourish; to maintain one's health
- 27th hexagram of the I Ching
- a surname
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
頤
(Hyōgai kanji)
- chin
- jaw
Readings
Etymology
| For pronunciation and definitions of 頤 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 頤, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Korean
Hanja
頤 (eum 이 (i))
- cheeks
- jaw
- chin
- rear
- to nourish
Vietnamese
Han character
頤: Hán Nôm readings: di
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