頁 Radical 181 — a head (original sense); a page, a leaf of a book (modern sense)
yè (fourth tone, falling)
a head (original sense); a page, a leaf of a book (modern sense)
Radical 1819 strokes0 characters
Also written 页 — the same radical in a different position inside the character.
Where the shape comes from
A person kneeling with the head drawn large and marked out on top — the face 首 above a body. The head sense survives only in compounds; the everyday word is now "page", borrowed from a homophone. As a radical it is all head: 头 in the traditional 頭, 题 a topic and so a question, 顶 a summit, 颜 a face, 预, 顺. In simplified writing it is always 页 on the right.
characters filed under 頁
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