頂
receive; summit; place on the head; top of head; top; peak
11 strokes. Taught in grade 6. Newspaper frequency rank 1350.
Readings
- チョウ (on reading): 山頂 (さんちょう) summit (of a mountain); 頂点 (ちょうてん) vertex
- いただき (kun reading): 頂 (いただき) crown (of head); 頂き物 (いただきもの) present (that one has received)
- いただく (kun reading): 押し頂く (おしいただく) to accept an object and hold it reverently over one's head
Components
- 丁
- 頁
- 一 radical one
- 亅 radical hook
- ハ radical eight, katakana ha
- 目 radical eye
- 貝 radical shell; money
- 頁 radical head; page
Words using 頂
- 山頂 (さんちょう) summit (of a mountain)
- 頂点 (ちょうてん) vertex
- 頂上 (ちょうじょう) top
- 絶頂 (ぜっちょう) top (of a mountain)
- 登頂 (とうちょう) climbing to the summit
- 頂 (いただき) crown (of head)
- 頂き物 (いただきもの) present (that one has received)
- 山の頂 (やまのいただき) mountain top
- 頂き女子 (いただきじょし) woman who feigns intimacy with men for money
- 押し頂く (おしいただく) to accept an object and hold it reverently over one's head
- 灌頂 (かんじょう) baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood
- 頂相 (ちんぞう) portrait or sculpture of a renowned Zen monk
- 伝法灌頂 (でんぼうかんじょう) consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)
74 words in all.