These three semantic components 贝, 见 and 页 look very familiar but are totally different. Just explore how they are different!
At first glance, 贝, 见 and 页 look quiet similar, but they have different meanings, and so do the characters formed by them.
Differences between the semantic components 贝, 见 and 页
The semantic component 贝
贝, pictogram, denotes shell. As we know, the ancient people used shells as money to trade, so characters composed of the semantic 贝 express meanings related to money, trade, business, deal, wealth, finance, etc, such as:
财 wealth; property
贷 loan; borrow; lend
费 expense; cost; spend
贫 poor
购 purchase; buy
贸 trade
赊 buy or sell on credit
赔 compensate; pay for; stand a loss
账 account; debt
账 account; debt
The semantic component 见
见, a compound ideogram, denotes see, look, watch, etc. Characters composed of 见 express meanings related to view, admire, feel, see, watch, look, present, etc. such as:
观 observe; look at; watch
觅 look for; hunt for; seek
视 look at; regard; inspect
览 take a look at; read; see; view
现 appear, present,
窥 peep; spy
觇 observe; survey
觊 attempt; hope; long for
觐 present oneself before (a monarch)
The semantic component 页
页，a pictogram, denotes head. Characters composed of 页 express meanings realted to certain part of the head, movement of the head, etc or figurative meanings related to the head, such as:
额 forhead
顶 top
领 neck; collar
颅 cranium; skull
颊 cheek
颜 face
项 nape; sum; term; section
颈 neck
顾 look around
颓 declining; decadent; dilapidated; ruined
贝 and 见 can also serve as phonetic components to form chracters.
Examples of characaters formed by the phonetic component 贝: 呗 bei, 钡 bèi， 狈 bèi, 坝 bà, 败 bài
Examples of characaters formed by the phonetic component 见:
枧 jiǎn、笕 jiǎn、靓 liàng、蚬 xiǎn、岘 xiàn、苋 xiàn
Don’t forget to subscribe our YouTube channel for the updates.