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yèxié HSK1

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approved by Peter Olson · Feb 18, 2022, 09:41 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Feb 18, 2022, 09:41 PM

頁

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
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

Sources

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