頤
頤 — i
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 턱 이
- Romanization
- i
- English
- cheeks; jaw; chin; rear; to nourish; hexagram ䷚
- Mandarin
- yí
- Japanese on'yomi
- イ, アイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- おとがい あご
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 頁 (181, 7 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9824
How 頤 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 頤 as a ideographic compound involving 𦣞, 頁.
Japanese words with 頤
- 頤おとがい (lower) jaw; chin; mentum
- 頤使いし bossing someone around; having a person under one's control
- 山雷頤さんらいい yi (hexagram 27 of the I Ching: the corners of the mouth)
- 頤で人を使うあごでひとをつかう to set someone to work in an arrogant fashion; to push someone around
Other hanja read “이”
Other hanja with radical 頁
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