顳

See also: 颞

Translingual

Han character

顳 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+18, 27 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一月金 (SJMBC), four-corner 1118₆, composition ⿰聶頁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1410, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43750
• Dae Jaweon: page 1930, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4397, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9873

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Chinese

trad.		顳
simp.		颞

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
攝	*neːb, *ʔnjeb
聶	*neb
鑷	*neb
躡	*neb
襵	*nteb, *ʔnjeb
懾	*ʔnjeb
囁	*ʔnjeb, *njeb
欇	*ʔnjeb, *n̥ʰjeb, *ɦnjeb, *hnjeb
灄	*hnjeb
顳	*njeb
讘	*njeb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njeb) : phonetic 聶 (OC *neb) + semantic 頁.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 顳

1. (anatomy) Only used in 顳顬／颞颥 (nièrú, “temple; temporal bone”); also used as its short form.

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Japanese

Kanji

顳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にょう(nyō)
• Kan-on: じょう (jō)
• Kan’yō-on: しょう (shō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 顳顬(こめかみ) (komekami), 顳顬(しょうじゅ) (shōju): temple (region of skull)
• 顳顬骨(しょうじゅこつ) (shōjukotsu): temporal bone

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Korean

Hanja

顳 • (seop) (hangeul 섭, revised seop, McCune–Reischauer sŏp, Yale sep)

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