Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

頁 (radical 181 頁+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一月山金 (MBUC), four-corner 1080₆, composition ⿱丆貝 or ⿱𦣻八)

1. Kangxi radical #181, ⾴ ‎(“leaf”).

See also

• 首 敢

References

• KangXi: page 1399, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43333
• Dae Jaweon: page 1915, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4355, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9801

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頁
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) :  卩 +  首 – head of a kneeling person, emphasising “head”.

頁 and 首 (OC *hljuʔ, *hljus) were originally the same pictographic character with the same meaning of “head”, and the graphical difference was that 頁 also included the body in addition to the head of the person.

By the Eastern Han Dynasty [25–220 CE], 頁 has been used as an alternative popular form of 葉 (OC *hljeb, *leb, “leaf; page”) to mean “sheet; page (of paper)”, which is its main meaning today.

The original sense of “head” is preserved in the radical 頁 (“body part”), used in characters such as 頭 (“head”), 頸 (“neck”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

頁

1. page; sheet (of paper)
2. (computing) page
3. Classifier for pages.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

頁

1. ^†head

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. big shell
2. page
3. leaf

Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu), よう (you), けち (kechi)
• Kun: かしら (kashira), ページ (pēji)

Compounds

• 頁岩

Noun

頁 ‎(katakana ページ, romaji pēji)

1. page

Korean

Hanja

頁 • ‎(hyeol) (hangeul 혈, revised hyeol, McCune-Reischauer hyŏl, Yale hyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頁 (hiệt, hệt)

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