頤
yí

cheeks

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approved by Prismcool · Oct 6, 2023, 05:08 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Oct 6, 2023, 05:08 AM

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Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 𦣞 represents the sound.

Components

頁
頁 Meaning component
𦣞
𦣞 SoundMeaning component

Depicts a person's chin.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyi[ɢ](r)ə chin

說文解字

《說文》：“，也。象形。頤，篆文。，籀文从首。”

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)