颁

頒
bān
#2,314 most
frequent character
to promulgate, to send out, to issue

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

颁 bān joins 分 fēn as the sound part with 页, a head. The head part points to its first meaning, 'large head.' The later sense 'to proclaim' was borrowed for the sound alone, not from the meaning.

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Homophones

HSK 3
班bān
team, class, squad, work shift
HSK 3
搬bān
to move, to shift, to remove
扳bān
to pull
般bān
sort, kind, class, way, manner

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