Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound.
Components
頁 Meaning component
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夏 summer头 top (simp)寡 widowed履 footwear瀕 riverside (trad)煩 vexed (trad/jp)頃 100 Chinese acres (trad/jp)須 have to (trad/jp)頪 bright white頭 head (trad/jp)頻 repeatedly (trad/jp)碩 big (trad)頂 crest (trad/jp)項 item (trad/jp)順 obey (trad/jp)頌 extol (trad)頏 fly down or downward (trad)預 beforehand (trad/jp)頑 stubborn (trad/jp)頒 promulgate (trad/jp)
Historical Evolution
顛
Bronze
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
顛
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
顛
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
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Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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Regular
Modern
Chinese
颠 / 顛 [diān]
top (of the head); apex; to fall forwards; inverted; to jolt
Example Sentences
Japanese Names
顛 とうま
Touma unclassified name
CHINESE WORDS (40)
颠倒 [diāndǎo] #7,496
to turn upside down
颠覆 [diānfù] #11,366
to topple (i.e. knock over)
颠簸 [diānbǒ] #12,654
to shake
不列颠 [Bùlièdiān] #14,407
Britain
大不列颠 [DàBùlièdiān] #17,386
Great Britain
颠倒黑白 [diāndǎohēibái] #40,477
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately
神魂颠倒 [shénhúndiāndǎo] #33,055
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love
颠沛流离 [diānpèiliúlí] #52,003
homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight
颠倒是非 [diāndǎoshìfēi] #44,191
to invert right and wrong
颠扑不破 [diānpūbùpò] #46,642
solid
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JAPANESE WORDS (17)
⭐ 転落 [てんらく] #8,038
fall
⭐ 転倒 [てんとう] #10,475
fall
顛末 [てんまつ] #14,853
details (of an incident, event, etc.)
本末転倒 [ほんまつてんとう] #15,429
putting the cart before the horse
動転 [どうてん] #20,536
disturbance of mind
⭐ 転覆 [てんぷく] #24,405
overturning
七転八倒 [しちてんばっとう] #55,821
tossing oneself about in great pain
酒呑童子 [しゅてんどうじ] #95,065
Shuten-dōji
山巓 [さんてん] #115,782
summit (of a mountain)
主客転倒 [しゅかくてんとう] #153,517
reversing the order of (relative) importance (of)
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