漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
頂: place on the head, receive
Also: top of head, top, summit, peak
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
頁 carries the meaning · 丁 gives the sound
11 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 頂点ちょうてんtop, summit
- 頂上ちょうじょうtop, summit, peak
- 山頂さんちょうsummit
- 絶頂ぜっちょうsummit, peak, climax
- 有頂天うちょうてんecstasy, rapture
- 登頂するとうちょうするclimb to the summit
- 頂戴するちょうだいするreceive, be given [hum.]
いただくitadaku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 頂くいただくreceive, take food [hum.]
- 頂けないいただけないpitiful, miserable, shameful
いただきitadaki · kun'yomi
- 頂いただきtop, summit, spire, peak, crown
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
丁
Also built on street (丁)
頂 takes the 丁 family's reading, チョウ (chou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side頂 place on the head · 丁
vs頃 time · 匕In ChineseSimplified 顶 · traditional, as in Japanese · dǐng
Japan keeps the traditional form 頂; mainland China simplifies it to 顶.
- Simplified
- 顶 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 頂 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dǐng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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