尾页
wěi​yè

last page

尾 wěi tail

Depicts fur (毛) protruding from the posterior of a person (尸) wearing a decorative tail.

Components

尸
尸 Iconic component
shī sitting person

Depicts a person sitting or squatting.

毛
毛 Iconic component
máo, mao hair

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (3 of 4 verified)

属屈艉屬

Sound (1 of 3 verified)

犀娓艉

Remnant (1)

屈

Iconic (1)

隶

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartmj+jX[m]əjʔ tail

說文解字

《說文》：“尾，微也。从到毛在尸後。古人或飾系尾，西南夷亦然。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

页 yè page Simplified

Simplified form of 頁. Pictograph of a head (首) on top of a person (卩). Means "head" when pronounced xié. Has unrelated meaning "leaf" when pronounced yè, due to this character being adopted as a variant form of 葉.

Components

首
首 Iconic component
shǒu head
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 首 than it was in ancient scripts.
卩
卩 Iconic component
jié person kneeling

Component uses

Meaning (14 of 35 verified)

题领项预顿顾额顺顶颜颇颤顽颈颠硕颁颂颊颅颓颐颌颉颚颔颧颏颞颀颛顸颡颃颥

Iconic (5)

须烦频顷濒

Unknown (0 of 2 verified)

颖颍

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

颗

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

頁 yè (head), page Traditional

Original meaning: head

Pictograph of a head (首) on top of a person (卩). Means "head" when pronounced xié. Has unrelated meaning "leaf" when pronounced yè, due to this character being adopted as a variant form of 葉.

Components

首
首 Iconic component
shǒu head
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 首 than it was in ancient scripts.
卩
卩 Iconic component
jié person kneeling

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (16 of 38 verified)

題頸顯預顧項顱順顏頗領顗頂額顫顬頌頰顎頹願顳顓頷頒頤顛碩頓頜顴頦頏顚顙龥頑頡

Iconic (11)

头夏履寡頭須頻頃煩瀕頪

Simplified (1)

头

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

顆

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

穎

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangleb
ɡleːd

說文解字

《說文》：“頁，頭也。从，从儿。古文如此。者首字也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)