niè

the temporal bone

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

Components
页 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

page

聂 sound component

  Sound component

niè

  

whisper

Evolution

颞 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颞 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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niè

the temporal bone; bones of the temple (on the human head); see 顳顬|颞颥, temple

Most common words with 颞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

temple (the sides of human head)

颞叶

temporal lobe

颞骨

temporal bone

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5037th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Traditional

Unicode

U+989E


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