U+9803 "頃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+9803 "頃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of "moment," "time," "interval," or "a short while," often used in classical and modern East Asian languages including Chinese and Japanese. In Chinese, it can also denote an unit of land measurement (about 6.67 hectares or 100 mu), while in Japanese it is commonly used as a suffix to indicate time periods, such as an hour or quarter hour. The character is composed of the radical for "head" or "page" on the left and the component for "dagger" or "scoop" on the right, reflecting its historical construction as a pictophonetic compound where the phonetic part hints at its pronunciation. Across contexts, "頃" frequently appears in expressions like "頃刻" meaning "in an instant" or "此頃" meaning "recently," demonstrating its enduring role in temporal and spatial measurement.