颠 (diān): top (of the head), apex, to fall forwards
颠 (diān) is a Chinese character meaning “top (of the head).” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 真 (phonetic) and 页 (semantic). It ranks #2093 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 颠 head. Its radical form 页 (page) appears in many related characters such as 页 (xié, head), 顺 (shùn, to obey), 须 (xū, must).
Definitions
- top (of the head)
- apex
- to fall forwards
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 颠倒 | diān dǎo | to turn upside down |
| 颠覆 | diān fù | to topple (i.e. knock over) |
| 颠簸 | diān bǒ | to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence) |
| 不列颠 | bù liè diān | Britain |
| 大不列颠 | dà bù liè diān | Great Britain |
| 颠倒黑白 | diān dǎo hēi bái | lit. to invert black and white (idiom) |
| 颠倒是非 | diān dǎo shì fēi | (idiom) to distort right and wrong |
| 颠沛流离 | diān pèi liú lí | homeless and miserable (idiom) |
| 颠来倒去 | diān lái dǎo qù | to harp on |
| 颠扑不破 | diān pū bù pò | solid |
| 不列颠保卫战 | bù liè diān bǎo wèi zhàn | see 不列顛戰役|不列颠战役[Bu4 lie4 dian1 Zhan4 yi4] |
| 不列颠哥伦比亚 | bù liè diān gē lún bǐ yà | British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada |
| 不列颠哥伦比亚省 | bù liè diān gē lún bǐ yà shěng | British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada |
| 新不列颠岛 | xīn bù liè diān dǎo | New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea |
| 颠三倒四 | diān sān dǎo sì | confused |
颠 appears in 42 compound words: 60 as the first character, 5 as the last, and 36 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 颠 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (12)
to confuse right and wrong; to confound right with wrong; to distort the truth; to misrepresent the facts
to work hectically; to be on the go; to run around attending to various tasks
to confuse right and wrong; to confound right with wrong; to distort the truth; to misrepresent the facts
to work hectically; to be on the go; to run around attending to various tasks
Showing 10 of 12 idioms containing 颠.
Example Sentences
老师教我们颠字的发音和笔顺。
lǎo shī jiào wǒ men diān zì de fā yīn hé bǐ shùn .
The teacher taught us the pronunciation and stroke order of the character "颠."
AI颠覆风险还是美股机遇?摩根士丹利发表看法
A I diān fù fēng xiǎn hái shì měi gǔ jī yù ? mó gēn shì dān lì fā biǎo kàn fǎ
AI disruption risk or opportunity for US stocks? Morgan Stanley expressed its opinion
高盛:人工智能颠覆避险驱动资金流向重资本企业
gāo shèng : rén gōng zhì néng diān fù bì xiǎn qū dòng zī jīn liú xiàng chóng zī běn qǐ yè
Goldman Sachs: Artificial intelligence disrupts safe-haven and drives capital flows to capital-heavy enterprises
...ic Can Record Crate:颠覆传统黑胶收纳方式
. . . i c C a n R e c o r d C r a t e : diān fù chuán tǒng hēi jiāo shōu nà fāng shì
... ic Can Record Crate: Subverting the traditional vinyl storage method
深海鱼视网膜发现新“混血”视觉细胞,颠覆 150 年生物学认知
shēn hǎi yú shì wǎng mó fā xiàn xīn hùn xiě shì jué xì bāo , diān fù 1 5 0 nián shēng wù xué rèn zhī
Deep-sea fish retinas discover new "mixed" visual cells that overturn 150-year-old biological cognition
旅游股因AI颠覆忧虑大幅下挫
lǚ yóu gǔ yīn A I diān fù yōu lǜ dà fú xià cuò
Travel stocks fell sharply due to concerns about AI disruption
她被他迷得神魂颠倒。
Tā bèi tā mí de shénhúndiāndǎo.
She's completely crazy about him.
不列颠也是一座岛。
Bùlièdiān yě shì yī zuò dǎo.
Britain is also an island.
那些想要颠覆这个世界的人们，我们将击败你们。
Nàxiē xiǎngyào diānfù zhège shìjiè de rénmen, wǒmen jiāng jībài nǐmen.
To those who would tear the world down: we will defeat you.
美利坚合众国于1776年宣布其独立于大不列颠王国。
Měilìjiān Hézhòngguó yú yī qī qī liù nián xuānbù qí dúlì yú Dà Bùlièdiān wángguó.
The US declared independence from Great Britain in 1776.
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