頞

頞 U+981E, 頞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-981E ← 頝 [U+981D] CJK Unified Ideographs 頟 → [U+981F]

Translingual

Han character

頞 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十女一月金 (JVMBC), four-corner 3148₆, composition ⿰安頁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1403, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43447
• Dae Jaweon: page 1920, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4371, character 2
• Unihan data for U+981E

Chinese

trad.		頞
simp.		𱂨
alternative forms		齃 𩕬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (安) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	*qaːns, *qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːd) : phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Etymology

Possibly related to 鞍 (OC *qaːn, “saddle”) (Pulleyblank apud Goodrich, 1984).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aat³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aat³
    • Yale: aat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: ad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːt̚³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: 'at

Rime
Character	頞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	寒 (63)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏葛切
Baxter	'at
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔat̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɑt̚/
Wang Li	/ɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	e
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ot3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頞
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	è
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔat ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁat/
English	root of the nose
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頞
Reading #	1/1
No.	24
Phonetic component	安
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	遏
Old Chinese	/*qaːd/
Notes	同齃

Definitions

頞

1. (literary) bridge of the nose
2. (literary) forehead

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鼻樑 (“bridge of the nose”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		頞
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鼻樑
Mandarin	Beijing	鼻樑兒
	Taiwan	鼻樑
	Harbin	鼻樑兒
	Yantai (Muping)	鼻子樑兒
	Jinan	鼻樑
	Luoyang	鼻樑
	Wanrong	鼻樑
	Xi'an	鼻樑子
	Yinchuan	鼻樑樑子
	Lanzhou	鼻樑骨
	Xining	鼻樑, 鼻樑骨
	Ürümqi	鼻樑子
	Wuhan	鼻樑, 鼻山根, 山根, 鼻子
	Chengdu	鼻樑, 鼻樑骨
	Guiyang	鼻樑
	Liuzhou	鼻樑
	Xuzhou	鼻樑兒, 鼻樑子
	Yangzhou	鼻樑子, 鼻樑
	Nanjing	鼻樑
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	鼻樑窪, 鼻樑子, 鼻樑兒
	Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan)	鼻樑窪
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鼻樑
	Hong Kong	鼻樑
	Taishan	鼻樑梗
	Dongguan	鼻樑
	Yangjiang	鼻樑棍
Gan	Nanchang	鼻樑
	Lichuan	鼻樑
	Pingxiang	鼻樑間, 鼻樑
Hakka	Meixian	鼻樑骨
	Yudu	鼻囊峎
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鼻囊峎
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	鼻囊峎
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	鼻龍
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	鼻囊公
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	鼻公頭, 鼻公樑
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	八卦頭
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	鼻樑
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	鼻空峎, 鼻囊峎
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	鼻公峎, 鼻公刀, 鼻峎, 鼻龍
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	鼻龍峎
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	鼻龍
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鼻樑, 鼻峎, 鼻龍峎
	Hong Kong	鼻樑峎
Jin	Taiyuan	鼻樑子
	Xinzhou	鼻樑子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鼻樑
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鼻花
	Fuqing	鼻樑
Southern Min	Xiamen	鼻腰, 鼻鞍, 鼻刀
	Quanzhou	鼻鞍, 鼻刀
	Jinjiang	鼻龍骨
	Zhangzhou	鼻刀
	Zhao'an	鼻心
	Taipei (Wanhua)	鼻岸
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	鼻龍, 鼻刀
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	鼻橐
	Kaohsiung	鼻刀, 鼻龍, 鼻管
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	鼻刀
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	鼻橐
	Yilan	鼻龍
	Yilan (Luodong)	鼻龍
	Yilan (Toucheng)	鼻龍
	Changhua (Lukang)	鼻刀
	Taichung	鼻刀
	Taichung (Wuqi)	鼻刀
	Tainan	鼻閬管
	Tainan (Anping)	鼻龍
	Taitung	鼻管
	Hsinchu	鼻龍
	Penghu (Magong)	鼻管
	Penghu (Xiyu)	鼻龍
	Haikou	鼻樑
Puxian Min	Putian	鼻頭
	Xianyou	鼻頭
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	鼻樑, 鼻樑橋
Wu	Shanghai	鼻樑
	Shanghai (Chongming)	鼻樑筋
	Suzhou	鼻樑
	Danyang	鼻樑
	Hangzhou	鼻樑
	Ningbo	鼻頭樑
	Wenzhou	鼻頭樑
	Jinhua	鼻樑
Xiang	Changsha	鼻樑
	Loudi	鼻頭間間

Compounds

• 掩鼻蹙頞／掩鼻蹙𱂨
• 疾首蹙頞／疾首蹙𱂨
• 縮頞／缩𱂨
• 蹙頞／蹙𱂨

 

Japanese

Kanji

頞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (nose) bridge

Readings

• On (unclassified): あつ (atsu); あち (achi); あん (an)
• Kun: はなすじ (hanasuji)

Korean

Hanja

頞 • (al) (hangeul 알, revised al, McCune–Reischauer al, Yale al)

1. the bridge [ridge] of the nose