jiá

cheeks

The jaw in  the head  also provides the pronunciation

Components
夹 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jiājiájià

  

be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

页 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

page

Evolution

颊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颊 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
颊 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颊 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jiá

cheeks, jaw; cheeks

Most common words with 颊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

脸颊

cheek

cheeks

面颊

cheek

腮颊

cheek

齿颊生香

fig. to water at the mouth

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5469% of movies

2888th most common character in movies

2655th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+988A


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