頗 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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pō, pǒ

lean one side

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 皮 represents the sound.

Components

頁 Meaning component

yè, xié

(head), page

皮 Sound component

pí

skin

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

颇 (頗)

pō

lean one side; very, rather; rather; quite; considerably; oblique; inclined; slanting; Taiwan pr. [pǒ]

颇 (頗)

Pō

surname Po; Taiwan pr. [Pǒ]

Most common words with 頗

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	颇	rather
	颇为	rather
	偏颇	biased
	颇具	rather
	景颇族	Jingpo ethnic group of Tibet and Yunnan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*pʰˤa[j]	pha	pō	slanting, oblique

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.5560% of movies

2660th most common character in movies

1560th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	14
Simplified	颇
Unicode	U+9817
Shuowen	“頗，頭偏也。从頁，皮聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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