頜

See also: 颌

頜 U+981C, 頜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-981C ← 頛 [U+981B] CJK Unified Ideographs 頝 → [U+981D]

Translingual

Han character

頜 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人口一月金 (ORMBC), four-corner 8168₆, composition ⿰合頁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1402, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43440
• Dae Jaweon: page 1920, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4368, character 16
• Unihan data for U+981C

Chinese

trad.		頜
simp.		颌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	*quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	*ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡	*tuːb, *toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙	*tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮	*tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌	*kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	*kuːb, *kruːb
韐	*kuːb, *kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	*quːb, *quːb
欱	*qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	*kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷	*kruːb, *ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	*qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb) : phonetic 合 (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé, gé, hàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ, ㄍㄜˊ, ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hap⁶ / gap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Yale: hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gé
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gé
    • Wade–Giles: ko²
    • Yale: gé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ger
    • Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàn
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴
    • Yale: hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hann
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hap⁶ / gap³
    • Yale: hahp / gap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hap⁹ / gap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: heb⁶ / geb³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐp̚²/, /kɐp̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: homX, kop

Rime
Character	頜	頜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	合 (160)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	胡感切	古沓切
Baxter	homX	kop
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʌmX/	/kʌp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦəmX/	/kəp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɒmX/	/kɒp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəmX/	/kəp̚/
Li Rong	/ɣᴀmX/	/kᴀp̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɒmX/	/kɒp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣămX/	/kăp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hàn	ge
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham6	gap3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡuːmʔ/, /*kuːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頜	頜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4942	4963
Phonetic component	合	合
Rime group	侵	緝
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	頷	閤
Old Chinese	/*ɡuːmʔ/	/*kuːb/

Definitions

頜

1. (anatomy) jaw

Compounds

• 上頜 / 上颌 (shànghé)
• 下頜 / 下颌 (xiàhé)
• 無頜 / 无颌
• 豬頜蛇鰻 / 猪颌蛇鳗 (zhūhéshémán)
• 頜骨 / 颌骨 (hégǔ)

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Gé (Ge²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Gé
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Gé
    • Wade–Giles: Ko²
    • Yale: Gé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ger
    • Palladius: Гэ (Gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gap³
    • Yale: gap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: geb³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐp̚³/

Definitions

頜

1. a surname

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ko̍p

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko̍p
    • Tâi-lô: ko̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kop
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔp̚¹²¹/

Definitions

頜

1. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to swallow a big gulp (of liquid)

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 沐 (bo̍k)

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 頜 – see 領 (“neck; collar; neckband; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 領).

Japanese

Kanji

頜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)、ごん (gon)、がん (gan)、こう (kō)
• Kun: あご (ago)