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頃

頃

See also: 顷

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

頃 (radical 181 頁+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心一月金 (PMBC), four-corner 21786, composition ⿰匕頁)

  1. a moment
  2. a measure of area equal to 100 mu (畝) or 6.7 hectares
  3. to lean

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 1399, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43338
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1915, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4355, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9803

Chinese

trad. 頃
simp. 顷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頃
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (頃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
顈 *ɡeːnʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
傾 *kʰʷeŋ
頃 *kʰʷeŋ, *kʰʷeŋʔ
穎 *ɢʷeŋʔ
潁 *ɢʷeŋʔ
熲 *kʷeːŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 匕 + 頁 ‎(“head”).

head is askew, the original meaning of 傾.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 頃
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰiŋ²¹⁴/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰiŋ²¹³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰiŋ¹³/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵³/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵³/
Xining /t͡ɕʰiə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰĩn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰin⁴²/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰyn⁵³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰĩ⁵³/
Nanjing /t͡ɕʰin²¹²/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰin²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰiəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰʟ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰin⁵³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰoŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰyʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰyn⁴¹/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰyn⁴²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰeŋ³⁵/
Nanning /kʰeŋ³⁵/
Hong Kong /kʰiŋ³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰiŋ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰiŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰeiŋ⁴⁴/
/kʰaiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰuaŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xeŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 頃 頃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 清 (122) 清 (122)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 去營切 去潁切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰwiᴇŋ/ /kʰwiᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷiɛŋ/ /kʰʷiɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰiuæŋ/ /kʰiuæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwiajŋ/ /kʰwiajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /kʰiuɛŋ/ /kʰiuɛŋX/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭwɛŋ/ /kʰĭwɛŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯wɛŋ/ /kʰi̯wɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiōng qiǒng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 頃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjwiengX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷʰeŋʔ/
English interval, short while

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 頃 頃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10507 10508
Phonetic
component		 頃 頃
Rime
group		 耕 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 傾 頃
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰʷeŋ/ /*kʰʷeŋʔ/

Definitions

頃

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Japanese

Kanji

頃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Noun

頃 ‎(hiragana ころ, romaji koro)

  1. such a time
  2. time of year, season

Suffix

頃 ‎(hiragana ごろ, romaji -goro)

  1. at that time, around

Korean

Hanja

頃 • ‎(gyeong, gyu) (hangeul 경, 규, revised gyeong, gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, kyu, Yale kyeng, kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頃 (khoảnh, khỉnh, cảnh)

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