U+983B "頻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+983B "頻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "frequency," "repeatedly," or "often," and it is composed of the radical for "head" or "page" (頁) on the right and the phonetic component "步" (step) on the left, suggesting a connection to something that occurs in succession. In modern usage, it appears in words such as "頻率" (pínlǜ, meaning frequency) in physics and statistics, and "頻繁" (pínfán, meaning frequent). It is also a common character in Japanese, where it is used in terms like "頻繁" (hinpan, frequent) and can serve as a surname. Additionally, "頻" appears in the name of the popular social media platform "TikTok" (known as 抖音, Dǒuyīn, in Chinese) as a component in the Chinese character for its name, though not in the platform's direct naming. Overall, it is a versatile logogram found across multiple East Asian languages, carrying connotations of recurrence and regularity.