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颃

頏
háng
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) to fly downward
  2. 2 (classical) the throat; neck

Examples

HSK 7-9
燕燕于飞，颉之颃之。
Yàn yàn yú fēi, xié zhī háng zhī.
The swallows in flight, soaring up and swooping down.

Tips

history
颃 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives only in the literary pair 颉颃 (xiéháng), birds soaring up and swooping down, from the 诗经. An older sense was the throat.
register
Literary; appears in classical poetry and the fixed phrase, not in speech.

Components

radical
页 yè
head; page
页 is the head radical (originally a drawing of a head), connecting the character to the throat and neck sense.
phonetic
亢 kàng
high; the throat
亢 supplies the sound, with the reading drifting from 亢 to 颃; 亢 itself can mean the throat, matching the older neck sense.

Stroke Order

颃 háng