页
yè · HSK 1
page
📄 页 yè = page or leaf; classifier for sheets of paper
Etymology: simplified from 頁, originally a pictograph of a human head, later borrowed to mean page or sheet. Today it counts pages in books and leaves of paper.
页 — head 頁 (simplified 页), originally a person with emphasized head
页 is the simplified form of 頁, a pictograph showing a human figure (儿) topped by an exaggerated head (首). It originally meant 'head' and now serves chiefly as a semantic component in characters relating to the head or face. In modern Chinese it independently means 'page' (sheet of paper).