髟

髟 U+9ADF, 髟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ADF ← 髞 [U+9ADE] CJK Unified Ideographs 髠 → [U+9AE0]

⾽ U+2FBD, ⾽ KANGXI RADICAL HAIR ← ⾼ [U+2FBC] Kangxi Radicals ⾾ → [U+2FBE]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 190 髟

髟 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+0, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸戈竹竹竹 (SIHHH), four-corner 7272₂, composition ⿰镸彡)

1. Kangxi radical #190, ⾽.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/髟
• 𧫄, 𪶰, 𤌩, 䭮, 𪄒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1452, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45355
• Dae Jaweon: page 1983, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4518, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9ADF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		髟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 髟
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

	Old Chinese
杉	*sreːm
彡	*sroːm, *slom
衫	*sroːm
髟	*priw, *piw, *sroːm
釤	*sraːms
䑣	*l̥ʰun
彤	*l'uːŋ
浵	*l'uːŋ
肜	*luŋ

Characters in the same phonetic series (彡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 镸 (“long”) + 彡 (“hair”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	髟	髟
Reading #	1/3	2/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	幽 (138)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	甫遙切	甫烋切
Baxter	pjiew	pjiw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇu/	/piɪu/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛu/	/pɨu/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæu/	/pieu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piaw/	/pjiw/
Li Rong	/piɛu/	/piĕu/
Wang Li	/pĭɛu/	/piəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛu/	/pieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biāo	biāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	biu1	bau1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髟
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biāo
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiw ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)iw/
English	long hair
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髟	髟
Reading #	1/3	2/3
No.	792	793
Phonetic component	髟	髟
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	彪	飊
Old Chinese	/*priw/	/*piw/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biāo (biao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): biu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phiau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biao
    • Wade–Giles: piao¹
    • Yale: byāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biau
    • Palladius: бяо (bjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: biu¹
    • Yale: bīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: biu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiau
    • Tâi-lô: phiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiau⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiew, pjiw

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*p(r)iw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*priw/, /*piw/

Definitions

髟

1. (literary) drooping of long hair
2. (literary) long human hair; hair

Compounds

• 髟髟
• 髟鼬

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piào (piao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄠˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piào
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piào
    • Wade–Giles: pʻiao⁴
    • Yale: pyàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piaw
    • Palladius: пяо (pjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

髟

1. (literary) long animal hair

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	髟
Reading #	3/3
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	銜 (149)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所銜切
Baxter	sraem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠam/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚam/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃam/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨm/
Li Rong	/ʃam/
Wang Li	/ʃam/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂam/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saam1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髟
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ sræm ›
Old Chinese	/*s(ˁ)ram/
English	long hair
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髟
Reading #	3/3
No.	11045
Phonetic component	彡
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	衫
Old Chinese	/*sroːm/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shan
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹
    • Yale: shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sam
    • Tâi-lô: sam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: safm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sam⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sraem

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s(ˤ)ram/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sroːm/

Definitions

髟

1. ^‡ tip of the eaves

Japanese

Kanji

髟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. long hair
2. mane

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)^{←せん (sen, historical)←せむ (semu, ancient)}、ひゅう (hyū)^{←ひう (fiu, historical)}、ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: さん (san)^{←さん (san, historical)←さむ (samu, ancient)}、ひゅう (hyū)^{←ひう (fiu, historical)}、ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

髟 • (pyo, sam) (hangeul 표, 삼, McCune–Reischauer p'yo, sam, Yale phyo, sam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

髟: Hán Nôm readings: tiêu

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References

• Nom Foundation