The story of 頁

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頁 depicts a kneeing man, when a man is kneeing, his head looks bigger. The original meaning of 首 is head, but now we only use 頁 to represent the meaning of leaf or page only since it share the same pronunciation with 葉. On the other hand, 頁 is one of the radicals of HanZi, some of the HanZi which bear 頁 as radical such as 頭(head) or 頸(neck) preserve the original meaning of 頁.