Kanji1 / 11
頂 kanji
place on the head, receive, top of head, top, summit, peak
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
チョウ
Kun readings
いただくいただき
Words with 頂
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3頂上Populartop; summit; peak
- N2頂点Popularvertex; apex; top (e.g. of a mountain); summit; peak; top (of a profession, field, etc.); summit; peak (of popularity, a boom, etc.); height (e.g. of prosperity); apex; zenith; climax
- —山頂Popularsummit (of a mountain)
- —絶頂Populartop (of a mountain); summit; peak; height; zenith; acme; climax; orgasm; climax
- —頂戴Popularreceiving; getting; accepting; being given; eating; drinking; having; please (give me; do for me)
- —登頂Popularclimbing to the summit; summiting
- —有頂天Popularecstasy; highest heaven
- —円頂dome; cupola
- —天頂zenith; vertex
- —頭頂top of the head; crown of the head; vertex; (the) parietal
- —骨頂height; pinnacle
- —頂角vertical angle
- —殻頂apex of a shell; umbo
- —丹頂red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane; red-cap oranda (goldfish); Tanchō (koi variety); having a red crest or patch on the head (of a bird, fish, etc.)
- —仏頂crown of a buddha's head; brusqueness; grumpiness
- —頂芽terminal bud; apical bud
- —茎頂tip of a stem (of a plant)
- —灌頂baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood; baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism); pouring water onto a gravestone; teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)
- —冠頂crown
- —堤頂crest of dam; top of dam