pō, pǒ
lean one side
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 皮 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 頗
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
rather | ||
rather | ||
biased | ||
rather | ||
Jingpo ethnic group of Tibet and Yunnan |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰˤa[j] | pha | pō | 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。” |
Sources
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