cheeks

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

Components
页 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

page

𦣞 sound,iconic component

𦣞  Sound Iconic component

  

chin

Depicts a person's chin.

Evolution

颐 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
颐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
颐 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颐 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

cheeks; jaw; chin; rear; to nourish; cheek; lower cheek

Most common words with 颐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

cheek

颐指气使

arrogant and bossy

颐和园

Summer Palace in Beijing

颐养

to nourish

大快朵颐

to gorge oneself

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2999th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+9890


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