頁 meaning and stroke order
Page, sheet, leaf
How to write 頁, stroke by stroke
9 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 頁
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- head
- page
- leaf
How 頁 is built
Pictographic character. A person's head.
How to remember 頁
頁 (yè) was drawn as a person's head, with a big head on top and a body below. Picture a head bent over a book, reading one page at a time.
頁 is the traditional form of 页 and is used as a measure word and noun for pages, both in books and online, as in 網頁 (wǎngyè) web page and 首頁 (shǒuyè) home page. Example: 請翻到第十頁。(Qǐng fān dào dì shí yè.) Please turn to page ten.
Common mistake: The bottom of 頁 looks like 貝 (bèi, shell), so learners often confuse the two or write 頁 as 貝 with an extra stroke on top. Remember that 頁 starts with a flat horizontal stroke and a short slanted stroke above the box, while 貝 does not.
Common words with 頁
Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.
Characters that contain 頁
Learning 頁 makes these easier to recognize and write.
Questions about 頁
How many strokes are in 頁?
頁 is written with 9 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 頁 mean?
頁 (yè) means page, sheet, leaf. A common word with it is 网页 (wǎngyè), meaning "web page".
How do you pronounce 頁?
頁 is pronounced yè, in the fourth tone (falling).
What is the simplified form of 頁?
頁 is a traditional character. Its simplified form is 页, used in mainland China and Singapore.
Why do so many characters about the head contain 頁?
Because 頁 originally pictured a head, it appears as a component in characters related to the head or face, such as 頭 (tóu, head), 顏 (yán, face) and 額 (é, forehead). The page meaning came later.
Is 頁 ever read as xié?
The dictionary lists xié with the old meaning head, but this reading is not used in modern Chinese. In everyday speech and reading you will only need yè.