顙

顙 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水木一月金 (EDMBC), four-corner 1198₆, composition ⿰桑頁)

• 𣌛

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1408, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43624
• Dae Jaweon: page 1926, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4388, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9859

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋaːŋʔ): phonetic 桑 (OC *sŋaːŋ) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Unclear. Possibly from an Austroasiatic language; compare Proto-Munda *sv₂maŋ (“forehead”), which may be connected to Old Khmer saṅ (“to raise”) (Schuessler, 2007).

顙

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) forehead

   • 今夫水，搏而躍之，可使過顙。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     今夫水，搏而跃之，可使过颡。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Jīnfū shuǐ, bó ér yuè zhī, kě shǐ guò sǎng. [Pinyin]

     Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go over your forehead.

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) head
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to kowtow

• “顙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: ひたい (hitai)

顙 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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顙: Hán Việt readings: tảng

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