额

額
é
noun #4,989

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 4
Wǒmen xūyào zhīfù éwài de fèiyòng.
We need to pay extra fees.
HSK 5
Qǐng quèrèn yíxià jīn'é.
Please confirm the amount.
HSK 6
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 ke to e 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