dǐng
top
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dǐng
top, peak; carry on head; very; apex; crown of the head; top; roof; most; to carry on the head; to push to the top; to go against; to replace; to substitute; to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc); (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile; classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤeŋʔ | tengX | dǐng | top of the head |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 41.7748% of movies
982nd most common character in movies
1000th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9802 |
Shuowen | “頂，顛也。从頁，丁聲。，或从作。，籀文从鼎。” |
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