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Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 𦣞 represents the sound.
Components
頁 Meaning component
page
𦣞 Phonetic component
yí chin
chin (ancient variant of 颐)
Depicts a person's chin.
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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
颐
Bronze
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
颐
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
颐
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
颐
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
颐
Clerical
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
颐
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
颐
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
颐
Regular
Modern
Chinese
颐 / 頤 [yí]
cheek; lower cheek; chin; jaw; to nourish
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (15)
颐指气使 [yízhǐqìshǐ] #27,784
lit. to order people by pointing the chin (idiom); to signal orders by facial gesture
颐和园 [Yíhéyuán] #23,110
Summer Palace in Beijing
颐养 [yíyǎng] #48,293
to nourish
大快朵颐 [dàkuàiduǒyí] #40,449
to gorge oneself
颐养天年 [yíyǎngtiānnián] #47,247
lit. to nurture one's years (idiom)
程颐 [ChéngYí] #49,797
Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Song neo-Confucian scholar
周敦颐 [ZhōuDūnyí] #53,132
Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar
朵颐 [duǒyí] #59,826
to move the jaw
解颐 [jiěyí] #66,226
to smile
颐指 [yízhǐ] #70,643
to order with the chin
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