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页 meaning and stroke order

yè

Page; leaf

HSK 16 strokesRadical 页Traditional 頁
Strokes6
Pinyinyè
ToneTone 4
Frequency#2,181
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How to write 页, stroke by stroke

6 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 页

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.

yèfourth tone (falling)
  1. page
  2. leaf
xiésecond tone (rising)
  1. head

How 页 is built

Pictographic character. A person's head.

bèisea shell

How to remember 页

页 began as a picture of a person's head. Picture the top stroke as a head with hair on top, and the 贝 shape below as the face and body, like a person bent over reading a page.

页 (yè) means a page of a book or a web page, and it also works as a measure word for pages. You see it in words like 网页 (wǎngyè, web page) and 首页 (shǒuyè, home page). Example: 请看第十页。(Qǐng kàn dì shí yè.) Please look at page ten.

Common mistake: Learners often confuse 页 with 贝 (bèi, shell) because 页 contains 贝 at the bottom. Remember that 页 has an extra horizontal stroke and a short stroke on top.

Common words with 页

Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.

WordPinyinMeaningLevel
网页wǎngyèweb pageHSK 6
主页zhǔyèhome pageHSK 7-9
页面yèmiànpage; web page
书页shūyèpage of a book
首页shǒuyèhome page (of a website); title page

页 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

最zuì后hòu修xiū订dìng此cǐ页yè日rì期qī：2010年nián11月yuè3日rì
Date of last revision of this page: 2010-11-03
我wǒ不bù喜xǐ欢huān五wǔ百bǎi页yè以yǐ上shàng的de书shū。
I don't like books with more than five hundred pages.
把bǎ你nǐ的de课kè本běn翻fān到dào第dì十shí页yè。
And open your textbook at page ten.
我wǒ把bǎ课kè本běn翻fān到dào最zuì后hòu一yī页yè。
I flicked through the textbook to the final page.
翻fān译yì几jǐ页yè英yīng文wén花huā了le我wǒ2个gè多duō小xiǎo时shí。
It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

Characters that contain 页

Learning 页 makes these easier to recognize and write.

题títopic须xūmust烦fánto feel vexed领lǐngneck顾gùto look after顿dùnto stop预yùto prepare顺shùnto obey顶dǐngapex项xiàngback of neck颗kēclassifier for smal…额éforehead频pínfrequency颜yánface颠diānpeak顽wánstubborn颈jǐngneck颤chànto shiver

Questions about 页

How many strokes are in 页?

页 is written with 6 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.

What does 页 mean?

页 (yè) means page; leaf. A common word with it is 网页 (wǎngyè), meaning "web page".

How do you pronounce 页?

页 is pronounced yè, in the fourth tone (falling).

What is the traditional form of 页?

The traditional form of 页 is 頁. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; 页 is the simplified form used in mainland China and Singapore.

Is 页 on the HSK exam?

Yes. 页 is part of the HSK 1 character list in the HSK 3.0 standard, and you are expected to write it by hand from HSK 2.

Why do so many characters about the head contain 页?

页 originally pictured a person's head, so it appears as a component in characters like 头 (traditional 頭), 顶 (dǐng, top of the head), and 脸 related words such as 额 (é, forehead). When you see 页 on the right side of a character, the meaning often relates to the head or face.

How do I say page numbers with 页 in Chinese?

Put the number before 页, usually with 第 (dì) for ordinal pages: 第五页 (dì wǔ yè) means page five. Without 第, as in 五页 (wǔ yè), it means five pages.

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