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頂

頂

See also: 顶 and 項

Translingual

Han character

頂 (radical 181 頁+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一弓一月金 (MNMBC), four-corner 11286, composition ⿱丁頁)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1399, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43335
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1915, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4355, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9802

Chinese

trad. 頂
simp. 顶

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頂
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (丁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
圢 *tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋʔ
町 *tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ, *deːŋʔ
打 *rteŋʔ, *teːŋʔ
盯 *rteŋʔ, *rdeŋ
朾 *rteːŋ, *rdeːŋ
丁 *rteːŋ, *teːŋ
玎 *rteːŋ, *teːŋ
虰 *rdeːŋ, *tʰeŋ, *teːŋ
揨 *rdeːŋ
釘 *teːŋ, *teːŋs
靪 *teːŋ, *teːŋʔ
仃 *teːŋ
叮 *teːŋ
疔 *teːŋ
頂 *teːŋʔ
奵 *teːŋʔ
耵 *teːŋʔ
酊 *teːŋʔ
葶 *teːŋʔ, *deːŋ
矴 *teːŋs
訂 *teːŋs, *tʰeːŋ, *deːŋʔ
飣 *teːŋs
汀 *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋs
艼 *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ
庁 *tʰeːŋ
婷 *deːŋ
停 *deːŋ
聤 *deːŋ
渟 *deːŋ
楟 *deːŋ
亭 *deːŋ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 頂
Mandarin Beijing /tiŋ²¹⁴/
Harbin /tiŋ²¹³/
Tianjin /tiŋ¹³/
Jinan /tiŋ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /tiŋ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /tiŋ⁵³/
Xi'an /tiŋ⁵³/
Xining /tiə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /tiŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /tĩn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /tiŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /tin⁴²/
Chengdu /tin⁵³/
Guiyang /tin⁴²/
Kunming /tĩ/
Nanjing /tin²¹²/
Hefei /tin²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ti⁵³/ ～事
/tiəŋ⁵³/ ～針
Pingyao /tiŋ⁵³/
/ti⁵³/ ～住
Hohhot /tĩŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /tiŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /tin⁵¹/
Hangzhou /tin⁵³/
Wenzhou /teŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /tiʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /tɛ³¹/
Xiang Changsha /tin⁴¹/
Xiangtan /tin⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /tin²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /tin³¹/
/taŋ³¹/ 山～
Taoyuan /tɑŋ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /teŋ³⁵/
/tɛŋ³⁵/
Nanning /tɛŋ³⁵/
Hong Kong /tiŋ³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiŋ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tiŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /taiŋ²¹/ 头～
/tiaŋ²¹/ ～嘴
Shantou (Min Nan) /teŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdeŋ²¹³/
Rime
Character 頂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 都挺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /teŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /teŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tɛŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tɛjŋX/
Li
Rong		 /teŋX/
Wang
Li		 /tieŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tieŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 頂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tengX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤeŋʔ/
English top of the head

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 頂
Reading # 1/1
No. 2386
Phonetic
component		 丁
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 頂
Old
Chinese		 /*teːŋʔ/

Noun

頂

  1. top, peak
  2. to carry on head
  3. most, exceedingly, best
  4. Classifier for hats and palanquins.  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    兩頂帽 / 两顶帽 [Cantonese]  ―  loeng5deng2 mou6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  two hats
    一頂轎子 / 一顶轿子  ―  yī dǐng jiàozǐ  ―  a palanquin

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

頂

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. a peak, a summit, the highest point of something
  2. to receive

Readings

Compounds

Phrase


I humbly receive it. (the food, generally)

Colloquially translated to "Thank you for this meal." A stock phrase for before eating.

Korean

Hanja

頂 • ‎(jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Compounds

  • 頂板 ‎(정판, jeongpan)

Vietnamese

Han character

頂 (đính, đảnh, đỉnh, điếng, đuểnh)

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