颠 · diān
top, peak, summit; upset
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
top, peak, summit; upset
- Mandarin
- diān
- Cantonese
- din1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+98A0
- Radical
- 页 · 181
- Strokes
- 16 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
16 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 颠
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
顛
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- diān
- kCantonese
- din1
- kDefinition
- top, peak, summit; upset
- kTotalStrokes
- 16
- kRSUnicode
- 181'.10
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+985B
- kTGH
- 2013:3327
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- diān 0240.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- diān 073.140
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- diān(49)