顏

顏 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 難卜竹一月 (XYHMB) or 卜竹一月金 (YHMBC), four-corner 0128₆, composition ⿰彥頁)

• 顔 (Preferred form used in Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Also a variant Chinese traditional form)
• 颜 (Simplified Chinese)

• 𫻤, 𫌧, 𩕝

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1407, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43591
• Dae Jaweon: page 1924, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 7, page 4383, character 10
• Unihan data for U+984F

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋraːn): phonetic 彥 (OC *ŋrans) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Bronze inscription forms: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋraːn): phonetic 产 (chǎn) + semantic 面 (“face”).

Various possibilities exist:

• Related to 額 (OC *ŋɡraːɡ, “forehead”) (Wang, 1982);
• From 迓 (OC *ŋraːs, “to receive; to welcome”) + nominalising suffix *-n (Schuessler, 2007);
• Related to Tibetan ངར (ngar, “front side”) (Schuessler, 2007).
• From a root *ŋ(ˤ)rar (“slope, nearly vertical side”), whence also 涯 (OC *ŋˤrar, “river bank”), 巘 (OC *ŋ(r)ar(ʔ), “hill”), & 山 (OC *s-ŋrar, “mountain”) (Baxter & Sagart, 2014).
• Cognate with Japhug tɯrŋa (“face”), Khroskyabs rŋá (Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

顏

1. (literary, anatomy) forehead, especially the glabellar area
2. countenance; facial expression

   容顏／容颜  ―  róngyán  ―  countenance; looks

   笑逐顏開／笑逐颜开  ―  xiàozhúyánkāi  ―  to beam with joy

   • 有女同車，顏如舜華。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有女同车，颜如舜华。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yǒu nǚ tóng chē, yán rú shùnhuá. [Pinyin]

     There is the lady in the carriage [with him],
     With the countenance like the flower of the ephemeral hedge-tree.

   張三的顏我真喜歡。 [MSC, trad.]
   张三的颜我真喜欢。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhāng Sān de yán wǒ zhēn xǐhuan. [Pinyin]

   I really like John Doe's face.

3. color; hue

   顏色／颜色  ―  yánsè  ―  color

4. prestige; dignity

   厚顏／厚颜  ―  hòuyán  ―  brazen; shameless

5. a surname

   顏真卿／颜真卿  ―  Yán Zhēnqīng  ―  Yan Zhenqing (Tang dynasty calligrapher)

6. (Thailand) ngan (Thai customary unit of area equal to 400 m²)

• (face):

• (color): 色 (sè)

• “顏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “颜”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 211.

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 顔)^[1]

1. Kyūjitai form of 顔 (face; expression)

• Go-on: げん (gen)
• Kan-on: がん (gan)
• Kun: かお (kao, 顏)^{←かほ (kafo, 顏, historical)}

For the character commonly used in modern Japan, see 顔 instead.

顏 • (an) (hangeul 안, McCune–Reischauer an, Yale an)

1. face
2. facial appearance

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Kun: みぱな (mipana, 顏)

From 目 (mī, “eye”) + 鼻 (pana, “nose”).

• IPA^(key): [mipana]

顏(みぱな) (mipana) 

1. face

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Kun: ちら (chira)

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕira]

顏(ちら) (chira) 

1. face

顏: Hán Nôm readings: nhan

1. face