頤

See also: 頉 and 颐

頤 U+9824, 頤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9824 ← 頣 [U+9823] CJK Unified Ideographs 頥 → [U+9825]

Translingual

Han character

頤 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸中一月金 (SLMBC), four-corner 7178₆, composition ⿰𦣞頁(GT) or ⿰𦣝頁(JK))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1403, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43455
• Dae Jaweon: page 1920, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4371, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9824

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Chinese

trad.		頤
simp.		颐
alternative forms		頥 𦣝 𩠛 𩠢 𩠡 頥 𦣝 𩠛 𩠢 𩠡 頉 顊／𬱪

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
茝	*kʰljɯːʔ, *kljɯʔ
洍	*ljɯʔ, *lɯ
姬	*klɯ, *lɯ
宧	*lɯ
頤	*lɯ
弬	*lɯ

May have originally been written 𦣞, a pictogram (象形) of a chin, in which case the modern form is an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lɯ) : phonetic 𦣞 (, “chin”) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): î

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î
    • Tâi-lô: î
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /i²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /i²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /i²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /i²³/

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• Middle Chinese: yi

Rime
Character	頤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	與之切
Baxter	yi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/jɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨ/
Li Rong	/iə/
Wang Li	/jĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ](r)ə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ yi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)ə/
English	chin
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	頤
Reading #	1/1
No.	14884
Phonetic component	頤
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	飴
Old Chinese	/*lɯ/
Notes	說文正體無頁此篆文

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 頤

1. (literary) chin; jaw; cheek
2. (literary) to nourish; to maintain one's health
3. 27th hexagram of the I Ching
4. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

頤

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. chin
2. jaw

Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i)
• Kun: おとがい (otogai, 頤)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
頤
おとがい Hyōgai
kun'yomi

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

【おとがい】 [noun] (dated) chin

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

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Korean

Hanja

頤 (eum 이 (i))

1. cheeks
2. jaw
3. chin
4. rear
5. to nourish

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Vietnamese

Han character

頤: Hán Nôm readings: di

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