Hanja Analyzer
顛

顛 — jeon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is not the standard Korean glyph form. The Korean form is 顚.

Korean reading
엎드러질/이마 전
Romanization
jeon
English
top, peak, summit; upset
Mandarin
diān
Japanese on'yomi
テン
Japanese kun'yomi
いただき たお.れる
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
19
Variant forms
顚
Radical
頁 (181, 10 residual)
Phonetic component
眞
Unicode
U+985B

Parts that make up 顛

  • 真 眞 과 같은 글자‘진·전’ 계열의 소리
  • 頁 머리 혈 몸 위에 얹힌 머리머리와 얼굴, 머리로 하는 일

How 顛 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 顛 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 真, 頁.

Japanese words with 顛

  • 顛末てんまつ details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events
  • 顛倒てんどう cognitive distortion
  • 顛末記てんまつき full account
  • 顛末書てんまつしょ detailed written report; formal account (of steps taken in response to an incident, etc.)
  • 不列顛ブリテン Britain (island); Great Britain
  • 造次顛沛ぞうじてんぱい (a) moment

Characters sharing the phonetic 眞

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “전”

Other hanja with radical 頁

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