頤

See also: 頉 and 颐

頤	U+9824, 頤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9824

← 頣
[U+9823]

CJK Unified Ideographs

頥 →
[U+9825]

Translingual

Han character

頤 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸中一月金 (SLMBC), four-corner 7178₆, composition ⿰𦣞頁(GT) or ⿰𦣝頁(JK))

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1403, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43455
Dae Jaweon: page 1920, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4371, character 11
Unihan data for U+9824

Chinese

trad.		頤
simp.		颐
alternative forms		頥𦣞𦣝𩠛𩠢頥𦣞𦣝𩠛𩠢𩠡頉顊／𬱪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頤
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
茝	kʰljɯːʔ, kljɯʔ
洍	ljɯʔ, lɯ
姬	klɯ, lɯ
宧	*lɯ
頤	*lɯ
弬	*lɯ

May have originally been written 𦣞, a pictogram (象形) of a chin, in which case the modern form is an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lɯ): phonetic 𦣞 (yí, “chin”) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yí (yi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): î

(Teochew, Peng'im): hi¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶yi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yí
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yí
  - Wade–Giles: i²
  - Yale: yí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
  - Palladius: и (i)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ji⁴
  - Yale: yìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î
  - Tâi-lô: î
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /i²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /i²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /i¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /i²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /i²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hi¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶yi
  - MiniDict: yi^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦi²³/

Middle Chinese: yi

Rime
Character	頤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	與之切
Baxter	yi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/jɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨ/
Li Rong	/iə/
Wang Li	/jĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ](r)ə/

(Zhengzhang): /*lɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ yi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)ə/
English	chin
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頤
Reading #	1/1
No.	14884
Phonetic component
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	飴
Old Chinese	/*lɯ/
Notes	說文正體無頁此篆文

Definitions

頤

(literary) chin; jaw; cheek
(literary) to nourish; to maintain one's health
27th hexagram of the I Ching
a surname

Compounds

大快朵頤 / 大快朵颐 (dàkuàiduǒyí)
妙語解頤 / 妙语解颐
支頤 / 支颐 (zhīyí)
方頤大口 / 方颐大口
期頤 / 期颐 (qīyí)
期頤之壽 / 期颐之寿
期頤偕老 / 期颐偕老
朵頤 / 朵颐
朵頤大嚼 / 朵颐大嚼
涕泗交頤 / 涕泗交颐
淚下交頤 / 泪下交颐
目使頤令 / 目使颐令
程頤 / 程颐
解頤 / 解颐
貫頤奮戟 / 贯颐奋戟
頤和園 / 颐和园 (Yíhéyuán)
頤帶 / 颐带
頤性養壽 / 颐性养寿
頤指 / 颐指
頤指氣使 / 颐指气使 (yízhǐqìshǐ)
頤指進退 / 颐指进退
頤神 / 颐神
頤神養壽 / 颐神养寿
頤神養性 / 颐神养性
頤神養氣 / 颐神养气
頤精養神 / 颐精养神
頷頤 / 颔颐
頤養 / 颐养 (yíyǎng)
頤養天年 / 颐养天年
頤養精神 / 颐养精神

Japanese

Kanji

頤

(Hyōgai kanji)

chin
jaw

Readings

On (unclassified): い (i)
Kun: おとがい (otogai, 頤)、あご (ago, 頤)、やしなう (yashinau, 頤う)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
頤
おとがい Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 頤 – see the following entry.

【おとがい】

[noun] (dated) chin

(This term, 頤, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

頤 (eum 이 (i))

Vietnamese

Han character

頤: Hán Nôm readings: di

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