hàn

chin

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

Components
页 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

page

含 sound component

  Sound component

hán

  

contain, hold in mouth

Evolution

颔 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
颔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颔 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颔 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

hàn

chin, jowl; give nod; chin; to nod (one's assent)

Most common words with 颔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

chin

颔首

to nod one's head

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4158th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+9894


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