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额

額
é
noun #4,989

Meanings

  1. 1 forehead
  2. 2 quota
  3. 3 amount

Examples

我们需要支付额外的费用。
Wǒmen xūyào zhīfù éwài de fèiyòng.
We need to pay extra fees.
请确认一下金额。
Qǐng quèrèn yīxià jīn'é.
Please confirm the amount.
今年大学招生名额增加了。
Jīnnián dàxué zhāoshēng míng'é zēngjiā le.
The university admission quota increased this year.

Tips

memory
客 (guest) + 页 (head) — the forehead you see when greeting a guest

Components

radical
页 yè
head; page
Right side is the head radical, originally a pictograph of a person with a prominent head. 额 specifies the front of the head — the forehead. Same head-as-radical family includes 颈 (neck), 颊 (cheek), 颜 (face), 颂 (eulogise); a quick way to spot face-and-head vocabulary.
phonetic
客 kè
guest; visitor
Left 客 supplies the sound. The kè to é shift is large in modern Mandarin but the connection holds through the shared 各 phonetic core, also seen in 路, 落, 略, 格. 客 itself shows a roof 宀 over 各 (each arrival) — visitors stepping in under one's eaves — but that imagery does not carry into 额.

Stroke Order

额 é