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额

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forehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount

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HSK 3.0
Level 6
Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
15
Radical
頁 +9
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
額
Common rank
#812
Unicode
U+989D

Formation & memory

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How 额 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

页 meaning “head” + 客 sound ( kè )

Components 客 页

How to remember it

forehead · Heisig RSH #313

客 guest + head

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 额

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
国民生产毛额 guó mín shēng chǎn máo é (Tw) gross national product; GNP
国内生产毛额 guó nèi shēng chǎn máo é (Tw) gross domestic product; GDP
额尔古纳市 É ěr gǔ nà Shì Ergun, a county-level city in Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 Shi4], Inner Mo…
额尔古纳河 É ěr gǔ nà Hé Argun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龍江|黑龙江…
额尔金 É ěr jīn James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered…
发行额 fā xíng é (periodical) circulation
额外性 é wài xìng additionality (economics)
出口额 chū kǒu é export amount
额尔古纳 É ěr gǔ nà see 額爾古納市|额尔古纳市[E2 er3 gu3 na4 Shi4]
额尔齐斯河 É ěr qí sī Hé Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to t…
前额叶皮质 qián é yè pí zhì prefrontal cortex (PFC)
额比河 É bǐ Hé Ebinur River in Xinjiang
信用额 xìn yòng é credit limit
棕额长尾山雀 zōng é cháng wěi shān què (bird species of China) rufous-fronted bushtit (Aegithalos iouschistos)
红额金翅雀 hóng é jīn chì què (bird species of China) European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
额头 é tóu forehead
吃空额 chī kòng é to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
金额丝雀 jīn é sī què (bird species of China) red-fronted serin (Serinus pusillus)
金额 jīn é sum of money; amount of money
高额 gāo é high quota; large amount

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 客 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
客 sound part kè guest, traveller; customer
喀 kā to vomit; used in transliterations
髂 qià pelvis, hip bone