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Kanji Detail for 頤 - "chin, gesture, nourish, hexagram"
頤
- Meaning
頤 means "chin, gesture, nourish, hexagram."
Chin - The lower jaw.
Gesture - To jerk one's chin.
Nourish - To nurture; to raise.
Hexagram - One of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Yijing.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
chin; jaw
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
cheeks; jaw; chin; rear; to nourish; hexagram ䷚
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(literary) chin; jaw; (literary) to foster; to nurture; to protect
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
cheeks, jaw; chin; rear; to nourish
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The cheek. As in 頤指氣使 (commanding with chin movements and breathing). Meaning using cheek movements to give orders to others. Extremely arrogant. | To nourish. A hundred years of age is called 期頤. Found in the Book of Rites. Meaning the elderly can only depend on others for care.
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