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頰

頰

See also: 頬 and 颊

Translingual

Traditional 頰
Shinjitai 頬
Simplified 颊

Han character

頰 (radical 181 頁+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 大人一月金 (KOMBC), four-corner 41086, composition ⿰夾頁)

References

  • KangXi: page 1404, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43496
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1922, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4373, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9830

Chinese

trad. 頰
simp. 颊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瘞 *qrebs
瘱 *qeːbs
脥 *kʰemʔ
浹 *skaːb, *skeːb
挾 *skaːb, *ɡeːb
夾 *kreːb
郟 *kreːb
筴 *sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
裌 *kreːb
鵊 *kreːb
狹 *ɡreːb
峽 *ɡreːb
硤 *ɡreːb
陜 *ɡreːb
陿 *ɡreːb
翜 *sraːb, *srɯːb
梜 *kraːb, *keːb
頰 *keːb
莢 *keːb
鋏 *keːb
蛺 *keːb
唊 *keːb
悏 *kʰeːb
匧 *kʰeːb
愜 *kʰeːb
篋 *kʰeːb
俠 *ɡeːb
綊 *ɡeːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *keːb) : phonetic 夾 ‎(OC *kreːb) + semantic 頁 ‎(“head”) – part of the head.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 頰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 怗 (158)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古協切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kep̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kep̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛp̚/
Li
Rong		 /kep̚/
Wang
Li		 /kiep̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiep̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jie
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 頰
Reading # 1/1
No. 5904
Phonetic
component		 夾
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 頰
Old
Chinese		 /*keːb/

Definitions

頰

  1. (anatomy) cheek

Japanese

Kanji

頰

(common “Jōyō” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 頬)

  1. cheeks
  2. jaw

Readings

Korean

Hanja

頰 • ‎(hyeop) (hangeul 협, revised hyeop, McCune-Reischauer hyŏp, Yale hyep)

  1. cheeks
  2. jaw
  3. amenity

Vietnamese

Han character

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