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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 190 +5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹卜一心 (SHYMP), four-corner 72111)

  1. mustache

Related characters

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
*ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
*zreː
*zreː
*zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
*zreːs
*zraːds
*zraːds, *slɯːɡ
*ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
*sʰeːʔ
*zeːʔ, *ʔse
*zeːs, *zes
*ʔse
*ʔse
*ʔse
*ʔse, *ʔseʔ
*ʔse, *ze
*ʔse, *sʰe
*ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
*ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
*ʔseʔ
訿 *ʔseʔ
*ʔseʔ
*ʔseʔ
*sʰe
*sʰeʔ
*sʰeʔ, *seʔ
*sʰes
*ze
*ze, *zes
*ze, *zes
*ze
*ʔsre

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔse) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *sʰeʔ).

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1703
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔse/
Notes

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana ひげ, romaji hige)

  1. mustache; beard
  2. whisker
    • 1905, Natsume Sōseki, 吾輩は猫である:
       (かれ) (はな) (さき)からぴんと突張 (つっぱ)っている (なが) (ひげ)をびりびりと (ふる)わせて非常 (ひじょう) (わら)った。
      Kare no hana no saki kara pin to tsuppatteiru nagai hige o biribiri to furuwasete hijō ni waratta.
      He stuck out his whiskers and laughed so hard that they trembled.

Synonyms

References


Korean

Hanja

(ja) (hangeul , revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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