頁

See also: 页 and 貝

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

頁 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一月山金 (MBUC), four-corner 1080₆, composition ⿱丆貝 or ⿱一自八)

1. Kangxi radical #181, ⾴.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/頁

See also

• 首

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1399, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43333
• Dae Jaweon: page 1915, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4355, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9801

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Chinese

trad.		頁
simp.		页

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頁
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : 首 + 卩 – head of a kneeling person, emphasising “head”.

頁 and 首 (OC *hljuʔ, *hljus) were originally the same pictographic character with the same meaning of “head”, and the graphical difference was that 頁 also included the body in addition to the head of the person.

頁 was later used as an alternative popular form of 葉 (“leaf; page”) to mean “sheet; page (of paper)”, which is its main meaning today.

The original sense of “head” is preserved in the radical 頁, which is used in characters such as 頭 (“head”) and 頸 (“neck”).

Etymology 1

Alternative form of 葉／叶 (“leaf; sheet (of paper)”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 頁

1. sheet (of paper)
2. page
3. (computing) page
4. Classifier for pages.
5. a surname

Etymology 2

Original meaning of this character.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xié (xie²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kit³ / sau²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hia̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xié
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sié
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh²
    • Yale: syé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kit³ / sau²
    • Yale: kit / sáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kit⁸ / sau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kid³ / seo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiːt̚³/, /sɐu̯³⁵/

Note: sau2 - using the pronunciation of 首.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hia̍t
    • Tâi-lô: hia̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛt̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛt̚²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: het

Rime
Character	頁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	胡結切
Baxter	het
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ɣet̚/
Wang Li	/ɣiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jit6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡleːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頁
Reading #	2/2
No.	14817
Phonetic component	頁
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	纈
Old Chinese	/*ɡleːd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 頁

1. ^† head

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

頁

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. big shell
2. page
3. leaf

Readings

• Go-on: げち (gechi)^{←げち (geti, historical)}
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)^{←けつ (ketu, historical)}; よう (yō)^{←えふ (efu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: こう (kō)^{←こう (kou, historical)}
• Kun: かしら (kashira, 頁); ページ (pēji, 頁)

Compounds

• 頁岩(けつがん) (ketsugan)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 頁 – see the following entry.

【ページ】 [noun] page (of a book, newspaper, etc.)

(This term, 頁, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 頁 (hiệt, hệt)

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