頃

See also 顷

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 匕 + 頁 (“head”)

head is askew, the original meaning of 傾.

Han character

頃 (radical 181 頁+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心一月金 (PMBC), four-corner 2178₆, composition ⿰匕頁)

1. a moment
2. a measure of area equal to 100 mu or 6.7 hectares
3. to lean

Derived terms

• 穎, 傾, 熲, 潁, 𨻺

References

• KangXi: page 1399, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43338
• Dae Jaweon: page 1915, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4355, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9803

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Cantonese

Hanzi

頃 (simplified 顷, Yale king2)

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Japanese

Kanji

頃 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: けい (kei), きょう (kyō), き (ki)
• Kun: ころ (koro), しばらく (shibaraku)

Noun

頃 (hiragana ころ, romaji koro)

1. such a time
2. time of year, season

Suffix

頃 (hiragana ごろ, romaji -goro)

1. at that time, around

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Korean

Hanja

頃 (hangeul 경, 규, revised gyeong, gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, kyu, Yale kyeng, kyu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

頃 (simplified 顷, pinyin qǐng (qing3), Wade-Giles ch'ing³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頃 (khoảnh, khỉnh, cảnh)