skull

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

盧 sound component

  Sound component

  

rice vessel

Evolution

顱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
顱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

skull; forehead

Most common words with 顱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

skull

头颅

head

颅骨

skull (of a dead body)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8352% of movies

2692nd most common character in movies

2961st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

25

Simplified

Unicode

U+9871

Shuowen

“顱,顱,首骨也。从頁,盧聲。”


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