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TSUMUGU · TOCFL C1 (est.) · 字
頻 character · TOCFL C1 (est.)
頻 ＝ 步 ＋ 頁
ㄆㄧㄣˊ · pín
adv — frequently, repeatedly; in quick succession

字源 FORM — what the parts do

步義two feet, one print past the other — walking
頁義a head, facing forward
A person stands at the water's brink (the old word is 瀕, the bank): feet (步) at the edge, head (頁) leaning out, crossing again and again where the ford is shallow. From the repeated wading came the everyday sense — 頻 is over and over: 頻繁、頻率、頻頻.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

腳（步）踩到水邊，頭（頁）探一探——一趟又一趟地過河。
Feet (步) at the water's edge, head (頁) craning forward — wading across, again and again.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)水邊、河岸— the water's brink (later written 瀕)
→頻繁、頻頻— frequently, again and again常用
⇒頻率— frequency — the rate of repeating常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
瀕bīnthe original word with 氵 restored — 瀕 keeps the water, 頻 dropped it for the sense of repeating頁yèthe head it carries — the page radical