yè, xié
page
Simplified form of 頁. Pictograph of a head (首) on top of a person (卩). Means "head" when pronounced xié. Has unrelated meaning "leaf" when pronounced yè, due to this character being adopted as a variant form of 葉.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 35 characters (12 verified)
题 领 项 预 顿 顾 额 顺 顶 颜 硕 颐 颇 颤 顽 颈 颠 颁 颂 颊 颅 颓 颌 颉 颚 颔 颧 颏 颞 颀 颛 顸 颡 颃 颥
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 13.6793% of movies
1722nd most common character in movies
1128th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9875 |
Sources
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