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頁

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

页

🇨🇳

page

HSK 10

Communication →Language

yè

ケツ

ぺえじ、おおがい、かしら

혈

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 heads+ 卩 person kneeling =

頁 page

首 Iconic component

shǒu heads

head

卩 Iconic component

jié person kneeling

seal

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

页

Regular

Modern

Chinese

页 / 頁 [xié]

head

页 / 頁 [yè]

page; leaf

Japanese

頁ページ同音

nouncounter usually kana page
n-suf usually kana nth page; page ...

大貝、頁おおがい同音

noun kanji "big shell" radical

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (3)

もう３ページ残っている。

I have three more pages to go.

このページのコピーを３枚とってください。

Please make three copies of this page.

２２ページの一節を読んで下さい。

Read the passage on page 22, please.

Japanese Names

頁ふくさこ

Fukusako unclassified name

頁ふくま

Fukuma unclassified name

CHINESE WORDS (37)

页面 [yèmiàn] #19,520

page

首页 [shǒuyè] #11,659

home page (of a website)

油页岩 [yóuyèyán] #52,490

oil shale

库页岛 [KùyèDǎo] #54,175

Sakhalin

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JAPANESE WORDS (14)

頁岩 [けつがん] #129,742

shale

改ページ [かいページ] #167,144

repagination

次ページ [じページ] #169,021

kanji "big shell" radical

ページ数 [ページすう] #200,370

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