Chinese Character Wiki

頰

jiá

cheeks

The jaw in 夾 the head 頁; 夾 also provides the pronunciation

Components
夾 sound,meaning component

夾  Sound Meaning component

jiā, jiá, jià

  

be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Evolution

頰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
頰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
頰 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
頰 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

颊 (頰) 

jiá

cheeks, jaw; cheeks

Most common words with 頰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

脸颊

cheek

颊

cheeks

面颊

cheek

腮颊

cheek

齿颊生香

fig. to water at the mouth

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5469% of movies

2888th most common character in movies

2655th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

颊

Unicode

U+9830

Shuowen

“頰，面也。从頁，夾聲。，籀文頰。”


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