頁

See also 页, and 貝

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

simpl.		页
trad.		頁

Phonosemantic interpretation

Old Chinese Initial /*k-/ lends semantic value Frame. Final consonant /*-t/ lends semantic value Cut/Divide/Reduce. Pictogram (象形) of a human with a prominent head → unified group of people (← one head representing many). Compare how 一 (a cognate of 頁 in Old Chinese) also involves reduction into a unity. Page is a borrowed meaning. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Etymology

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

頁 (simplified 页, jyutping jip6, Yale yip6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

頁 (POJ ket, kiet, ya̍p, Guangdong jap⁸, sak⁷ [Meixian], kiet⁷, zap⁸ [Hailu], jap⁸, kiet⁷ [Siyan], jap⁸ [Bao'an, Dongguan, Hong Kong], jap⁸, kiet⁷, ket⁷ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim ged5, giad5, yab6)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

頁

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 (hiragana ぺーじ, katakana ページ, romaji pēji)

1. page

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

頁 (simplified 页, pinyin xié (xie2), yè (ye4), Wade-Giles hsieh², yeh⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頁 (hiệt, hệt)