頁

See also: 页 and 貝

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形): a person (人) with a large head (𦣻, an old form of 首).

The original meaning was "head." The character was later borrowed for the word "page, sheet, leaf" (in a book), which had previously been written 葉. The character retains its original meaning in compounds like 頭 "head," 頸 "neck," etc.

Also simplified from 負 in Japanese 頼, from 賴.

Han character

頁 (radical 181 頁+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一月山金 (MBUC), four-corner 1080₆)

1. page, sheet, leaf
2. rad. no. 181

See also

• 首 敢

References

• KangXi: page 1399, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43333
• Dae Jaweon: page 1915, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4355, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9801

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Chinese

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trad.		頁
simp.		页

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yè, xié (ye⁴, xie²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ, ㄒㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jip⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ya̍p, ket, kiet
• Min Nan (POJ): ia̍h

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yè
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yeh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeh
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛ⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xié
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsieh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jip⁶
    • Yale: yihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jip⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /jiːp̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ya̍p, ket, kiet
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍h
    • IPA (Taipei): /iaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaʔ¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (頁, reconstructed)
Character (頁), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 屑 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡結切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦet̚/	/ɣiet̚/	/ɣet̚/	/ɦet̚/	/ɦɛt̚/	/ɣiet̚/	/ɣɛt̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (頁, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
頁					14816					頁					盍					2					葉					/*leb/
頁					14817					頁					歌					2					纈					/*ɡleːd/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

頁

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. big shell
2. page
3. leaf

Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu), よう (you), けち (kechi)
• Kun: かしら (kashira), ページ (pēji)

Compounds

• 頁岩

Noun

頁 (katakana ページ, romaji pēji)

1. page

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Korean

Hanja

頁 (hyeol) (hangeul 혈, revised hyeol, McCune-Reischauer hyŏl, Yale hyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頁 (hiệt, hệt)

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