yí
cheeks
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 𦣞 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 頤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
cheek | ||
arrogant and bossy | ||
Summer Palace in Beijing | ||
to nourish | ||
to gorge oneself |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ](r)ə | yi | yí | chin |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2999th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9824 |
Shuowen | “，也。象形。頤，篆文。，籀文从首。” |
Sources
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