An explanation of the etymology of pages.

In short: Jia from "30" to "head", like a kneeling person, highlights his head. Story: page, head also. A bronze inscription is like a person's head and body, and its head is set off by the smallness of the person, so the original meaning of "page" is head.

The difference between the words "page" and "initial consonant" lies in whether people are attached when writing, so these two words are variants.

See "First".

Oracle Bone Inscriptions may have hair on the prefix "page", or omit the shape of hair.

. There was hair on the prefix "page" in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but there was too much hair on the head during the Warring States Period, while the hair on the head was omitted in Xiao Zhuan. The word "page" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is used as the original meaning, such as:

Collection 15684: "pagoda", which means pig head.

Another example is Collection 222 15: "Five sons knock on the page", which means five boys kowtow. On the cover of the bamboo pole, the word "page" is engraved: "bow your hand, page your hand." "Sentence Jin Wenduo as" bow down? The first "Shangshu" and other handed down documents. Zhou Shu. Zhao Gao "is called" flattery ".

"Bowing to the knees" is an ancient ritual of bowing down, that is, kowtowing to hands and kowtowing to the ground.

It's just that "kotow" is written as "page hand", which may be a provincial text, but Ji thinks it is "page" or typo.

Story: page, head also. From my son. Ancient prose? First of all, all pages belong to pages. The word "page" and "first" were originally pronounced as "first", and the later word "page" was changed to "Hu Jieqie" at the latest in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

As for "page" as a quantifier of paper, it is a vulgar word, formerly known as "leaf". See "Leaves".

Related Chinese characters: swastika, prefix, leaf.