頂

Meaning

頂 centers on the highest point: the top of the head, a summit, or a peak. The sense of receiving something placed on the head extends naturally from that idea of the topmost position.

• 頂くいただく
  N4

  to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to buy

• 頂けるいただける

  to be able to receive; to be able to take; to be able to accept

• 頂点ちょうてん
  N2

  vertex; apex

• 頂戴ちょうだい
  N3

  receiving; getting; accepting; being given

• 絶頂ぜっちょう

  top (of a mountain); summit

• 山頂さんちょう
  N1

  summit (of a mountain)

• 頂上ちょうじょう
  N2

  top; summit; peak

• 頂いただき
  N1

  crown (of head); summit (of mountain); spire

• 頭頂とうちょう

  top of the head; crown of the head; vertex; (the) parietal

• 登頂とうちょう

  climbing to the summit; summiting

• 有頂天うちょうてん
  N1

  ecstasy

• 真骨頂しんこっちょう

  one's true worth; one's true self; what one is really made of

• 天頂てんちょう

  zenith; vertex

• 骨頂こっちょう

  height; pinnacle

• 仏頂面ぶっちょうづら

  sour look; surly face; pout

• 丹頂たんちょう

  red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane

• 頂きますいただきます
  N4

  thank you (for the meal just served); I receive (this meal)

• お涙頂戴おなみだちょうだい

  tearjerker; sob story; maudlin tale

• させて頂くさせていただく

  to have the privilege of doing

• バブル絶頂期バブルぜっちょうき

  peak of a financial bubble (esp. in Japan around 1990)

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