髟

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

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

髟 (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

• Index:Chinese radical/髟
• 𧫄

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

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 髟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biāo (biao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: biāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠ
    • Wade–Giles: piao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biau
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: biu¹
    • Yale: bīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: biu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /piːu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiau
    • Tâi-lô: phiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiaʊ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /piᴇu/, /piɪu/▼

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
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*p(r)iw/

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

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/

Definitions

髟

1. appearance of long hair

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ

• Min Nan (POJ): sam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (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: /ʃˠam/▼

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
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s(ˤ)ram/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sroːm/

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/

Definitions

髟

1. tip of the eaves

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Japanese

Kanji

髟

(uncommon “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)}

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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)

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References

• Nom Foundation