頁

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/頁

Glyph origin
– head of a kneeling person, emphasising “head”.

頁 and were originally the same pictographic character with the same meaning of “head”, and the graphical difference was that 頁 also included the body in addition to the head of the person.

頁 was later used as an alternative popular form of to mean “sheet; page (of paper)”, which is its main meaning today.

The original sense of “head” is preserved in the radical 頁, which is used in characters such as and.

Etymology 1
Alternative form of (“leaf; sheet (of paper)”).

Definitions

 * 1) sheet
 * 2) page
 * 3)  page
 * 4)  to flip through
 * : Ye
 * : Ye

Etymology 2
Original meaning of this character.

Definitions

 * 1)  head

Kanji

 * 1) big shell
 * 2) page
 * 3) leaf

Hanja