髭

髭 U+9AED, 髭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AED ← 髬 [U+9AEC] CJK Unified Ideographs 髮 → [U+9AEE]

髭 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹卜一心 (SHYMP), four-corner 7211₁, composition ⿱髟此)

1. mustache

• 鬚

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1453, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45399
• Dae Jaweon: page 1984, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4524, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9AED

trad.		髭
simp. #		髭
alternative forms		頿 頾 𩑽 𨱲 𨲝 頿 頾 𩑽 𨱲 𨲝 𨲦

Originally a pictogram (象形) depicting a man with a prominent mustache.

Later written 頿 or 頾, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔse) : semantic 須 (“beard”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ), where 須 is the original form of 鬚.

In the modern form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔse) : semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ).

髭

1. moustache

• “髭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. mustache

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: ひげ (hige, 髭)

Kanji in this term
髭
ひげ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 髭 – see the following entry.

【ひげ】 [noun] (broadly) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks [noun] 髭: mustache [noun] (figurative) whiskers (of animals) [noun] (figurative) antennae (of insects) [noun] (figurative) corn silk Alternative spellings 鬚, 髯

(This term, 髭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

髭 (eum 자 (ja))

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