Chinese Character Wiki

颠

diān

top

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound. Simplified form of 顛.

Components
页 meaning component

页  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

page

真 sound component

真  Sound component

zhēn

  

real

Evolution

颠 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
颠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
颠 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

颠 (顛) 

diān

top, peak, summit; upset; top (of the head); apex; to fall forwards; inverted; to jolt

Most common words with 颠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

颠

apex

颠倒

to reverse

颠覆

to capsize

颠簸

to shake

不列颠

Britain

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

巅

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

癫 巅

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.7527% of movies

2202nd most common character in movies

2134th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Traditional

顛

Unicode

U+98A0


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