髟

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 髟
Small seal script

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

Han character

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

1. hair
2. Kangxi radical #190, ⾽ ‎(“hair”).

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/髟

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		髟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biāo, shān (biao¹, shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠ, ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): biu¹
• Min Nan (POJ): phiau / sam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: biāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: piao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biau
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: shan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂa̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: biu¹
    • Yale: bīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /piːu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiau / sam
    • Tâi-lô: phiau / sam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaw, safm
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/, /sam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/, /sam⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /piᴇu/, /piɪu/, /ʃˠam/▼

Rime
Character	髟	髟	髟
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	幽 (138)	銜 (149)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	II
Fanqie	甫遙切	甫烋切	所銜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇu/	/piɪu/	/ʃˠam/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛu/	/pɨu/	/ʃᵚam/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæu/	/pieu/	/ʃam/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piaw/	/pjiw/	/ʂaɨm/
Li Rong	/piɛu/	/piĕu/	/ʃam/
Wang Li	/pĭɛu/	/piəu/	/ʃam/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛu/	/pieu/	/ʂam/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biāo	biāo	shān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*p(r)iw/, /*s(ˤ)ram/

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

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髟	髟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biāo	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ pjiw ›	‹ sræm ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)iw/	/*s(ˤ)ram/
English	long hair	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	髟
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	792	793	11045
Phonetic component	髟	髟	彡
Rime group	幽	幽	談
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	彪	飊	衫
Old Chinese	/*priw/	/*piw/	/*sroːm/

Definitions

髟

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Japanese

Kanji

髟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. long hair
2. mane

Readings

• Goon: ひょう (hyō), ひゅう (hyū), せん (sen)
• Kan’on: ひょう (hyō), ひゅう (hyū), さん (san)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

髟 (tiêu, bưu, sam)

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