Chinese Character Wiki
題

tí

topic

Original meaning: 

forehead

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "forehead". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head.

是 sound component

是  Sound component

shì

  

is

Evolution

題 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
題 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
題 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

题 (題) 

tí

forehead; title, headline; theme; topic; problem for discussion; exam question; subject; to inscribe; to mention; CL:個|个[gè],道[dào]

题 (題) 

Tí

surname Ti

Most common words with 題
Freq.
Word
Meaning

问题

question

主题

theme

题

topic

话题

topic

难题

difficult problem

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 95.4349% of movies

220th most common character in movies

218th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

题

Unicode

U+984C

Shuowen

“題，頟也。从頁，是聲。”


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