TSUMUGU · TOCFL B1 (est.) · 字
頁
ㄧㄝˋ · yè
noun — a page, a leaf (of a book)
字源 FORM — what the parts do
頁形a head on a body — the hair-topped head above, the legs (儿) below
A head drawn large above a pair of legs (儿) — a person seen as a head. That head-sense lives on in countless compounds (頭、頂、額); standing alone, the character was borrowed for the leaf of a book, the sheet you turn — a page (一頁、網頁).
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一顆大頭頂著頭髮,底下撐著兩條腿(儿),整個人縮成一個「頭」。
One big head, hair on top, propped on a pair of legs (儿) — the whole person seen as a head.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)頭— a head — the original sense, now living in compounds
(假借)一頁、書頁— a page, a leaf常用
→網頁、頁面— a webpage, a page-face
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension