This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

The top 颠 of a mountain 山; 颠 also provides the pronunciation

  • 巅 mountain peak, mountain top diān
    • 山 mountain, hill, peak shān
    • 颠 peak, summit, top; to upset diān
      • 真 real, actual, true, genuine zhēn
        • 十 ten, tenth; complete; perfect shí
        • 具 tool, implement; to draw up, to write jù
          • 貝 sea shell; money, currency bèi
            • 目 eye; to look, to see; division, topic mù
            • 八 eight; all around, all sides bā
          • 一 one; a, an; alone yī
      • 页 page, sheet, leaf yè
        • 贝 sea shell; money, currency bèi
          • 冂 wide jiōng
          • 人 man, person; people rén

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