mouth

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

合 sound component

  Sound component

  

to join

Evolution

頜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
頜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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mouth; jaw; maxilla and mandible

Most common words with 頜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

下颌

lower jaw

maxilla and mandible

上颌

maxilla (upper jaw)

下颌骨

lower jaw

上颌骨

maxilla (upper jaw)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3279th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+981C

Shuowen

“頜,也。从頁,合聲。”


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