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頁 means 'page'

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Strokes : 9    Radical number: 181    Frequency: 1615   Usefulness: 6    Study set: 6-1    Grade: 9   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 6 words   Used in 17 words   Used in 3 names   Component in 117 kanji (26 Jōyō)
Jinmeiyō (人名用)
Kun
   ページ page, leaf of a book
On    ケツ
Kun    ぺえじ   おおがい   かしら
Often used as a variant of (neck) when used as a component (thus carrying the meaning head).
Learn the differences between the 'small shell' and 'big shell' radicals, and find out why 頁 actually has nothing to do with shellfish! See what it does mean in characters such as (face) and (head).
⿱   whereupon one   shellfish  
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頁 is not used in the most common form of any of the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese.
Across all words in Japanese, 頁 is used 10 times, read 4 ways.
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ケツ : 6 words FIND ALL
noun
page total; total number of pages
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ぺえじ : 2 words FIND ALL
noun
blank page
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ページ (read as ページ) : 1 word FIND ALL
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Most common form: ページ
noun
page  (頁 is sometimes ぺえじ or ぺいじ; often written with kana only)
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おおがい : 1 word FIND ALL
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noun
kanji "big shell" radical
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An additional ページ less common words include 頁 but the reading has not yet been categorized.

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ページ page, leaf of a book   
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whereupon one
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
かい shellfish   
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katakana 'ha'; eight
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
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