lean one side

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

皮 sound component

  Sound component

  

skin

Evolution

頗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
頗 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
頗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lean one side; very, rather; rather; quite; considerably; oblique; inclined; slanting; Taiwan pr. [pǒ]

() 

surname Po; Taiwan pr. [Pǒ]

Most common words with 頗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

rather

颇为

rather

偏颇

biased

颇具

rather

景颇族

Jingpo ethnic group of Tibet and Yunnan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰˤa[j]

pha

slanting, oblique


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.5560% of movies

2660th most common character in movies

1560th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+9817

Shuowen

“頗,頭偏也。从頁,皮聲。”


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