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髭

髭

Translingual

Han character

髭 (radical 190 髟+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.
 髭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 髭
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (此) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
些 *saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐 *ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴 *zreː
祡 *zreː
茈 *zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦 *zreːs
砦 *zraːds
寨 *zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙 *ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉 *sʰeːʔ
鮆 *zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥 *zeːs, *zes
貲 *ʔse
髭 *ʔse
頾 *ʔse
訾 *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜 *ʔse, *ze
鈭 *ʔse, *sʰe
姕 *ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜 *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫 *ʔseʔ
訿 *ʔseʔ
呰 *ʔseʔ
嘴 *ʔseʔ
雌 *sʰe
此 *sʰeʔ
佌 *sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛 *sʰes
疵 *ze
骴 *ze, *zes
胔 *ze, *zes
飺 *ze
齜 *ʔsre

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

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 髭
Reading # 1/1
No. 1703
Phonetic
component		 此
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 貲
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔse/
Notes 頾字注或體

Definitions

髭

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Japanese

Kanji

髭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

髭 ‎(hiragana ひげ, romaji hige)

  1. mustache; beard
  2. whisker
    • 1905, Natsume Sōseki, 吾輩は猫である:
      彼 (かれ)の鼻 (はな)の先 (さき)からぴんと突張 (つっぱ)っている長 (なが)い髭 (ひげ)をびりびりと震 (ふる)わせて非常 (ひじょう)に笑 (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

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

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