skull

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
页 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

page

卢 sound component

  Sound component

  

rice vessel

Evolution

颅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

skull; forehead

Most common words with 颅
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

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+9885


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