頡 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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xié, jié

fly upward

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 吉 represents the sound.

Components

頁 Meaning component

yè, xié

(head), page

吉 Sound component

jí

lucky

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

颉 (頡)

xié

fly upward, soar; contest; to rob; (of a bird) to fly upwards; (of the neck) stiff

颉 (頡)

Xié

surname Xie

颉 (頡)

jié

to confiscate; legendary dog-like animal (old)

Most common words with 頡

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	颉	to confiscate
	仓颉	Cangjie input method (computing)

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

擷纈

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3544th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Simplified	颉
Unicode	U+9821
Shuowen	“頡，直項也。从頁，吉聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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