顔

See also: 顏 and 颜
顔 U+9854, 顔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9854
← 顓
[U+9853] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 顕 →
[U+9855]

Translingual
Traditional 顏
Shinjitai 顔
Simplified 颜
Stroke order (Japan)

Han character

顔 (radical 181, 頁+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input XXX卜竹 (XXXYH) or 卜竹一月金 (YHMBC), composition ⿰彦頁)

References
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1407, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43591
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1925, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4383, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9854

Usage notes

This character is the preferred form used in Japan, Korea, Vietnam as well as mainland China (when used as a traditional character).

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 顔
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Variant form of 顏 (彥 → 彦).

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 顔 – see 顏 (“forehead, especially the glabellar area; face; etc.”).
(This character, 顔, is a variant traditional form of 顏.)

Usage notes

This character is considered the traditional form of 颜 in mainland China based on the standardized form of characters (Xin Zixing) in use since 1965.

Japanese

Kanji
顔

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. face
  2. expression

Readings

Compounds
Kanji in this term
顔
かお
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

顔 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 顏, hiragana かお, rōmaji kao, historical hiragana かほ)

  1. a person's face
  2. a person's reputation

References
  1. 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

顔 • (an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune–Reischauer an, Yale an)

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Vietnamese

Han character

顔 (nhan, nhăn)

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