颞部
niè​bù

temple region

颞 niè the temporal bone Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 聂 represents the sound. Simplified form of 顳.

Components

页
页 Meaning component
yè page
聂
聂 Sound component
niè, zhé, shè whisper

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

部 bù part

Original meaning: place in Gansu province

Phonosemantic compound. ⻏ represents the meaning and 咅 represents the sound.

Components

⻏
⻏ Meaning component
yì city

⻏ is a component form of 邑.

Change in meaning
⻏ hints at the original meaning of 部, "place in Gansu province", which is no longer the most common meaning of 部 in modern Mandarin.
咅
咅 Sound component
pǒu to spit out

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbuwX[b]ˤ(r)oʔ lead (v.), govern

說文解字

天水狄部。从邑咅聲。

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)

顳 the temporal bone Traditional

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

Components

頁
頁 Meaning component
yè (head), page
聶
聶 Sound component
whisper

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangnjeb

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang