髭

髭	U+9AED, 髭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AED

Translingual

Han character

髭 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+5, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 尸竹卜一心 (SHYMP), four-corner 7211₁, composition ⿱髟此)

mustache

Related characters

鬚

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1453, character 20
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45399
Dae Jaweon: page 1984, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4524, character 4
Unihan data for U+9AED

Chinese

trad.		髭
simp. ^#		髭
alternative forms		頿頾𩑽𨱲𨲝頿頾𩑽𨱲𨲝𨲦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 髭
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Originally a pictogram (象形) depicting a man with a prominent mustache.

Later written 頿 or 頾, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔse): semantic 須 (“beard”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ), where 須 is the original form of 鬚.

In the modern form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔse): semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄗ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zī
  - Zhuyin: ㄗ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zih
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹
  - Yale: dz̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
  - Palladius: цзы (czy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zi¹
  - Yale: jī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: tsje

Rime
Character	髭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即移切
Baxter	tsje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡sie/
Wang Li	/t͡sǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔse/

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

moustache

Compounds

References

“髭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

髭

(Hyōgai kanji)

mustache

Readings

Go-on: し (shi)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kun: ひげ (hige, 髭)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
髭
ひげ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 髭 – see the following entry.

【ひげ】	[noun] (loosely) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks [noun] mustache [noun] (figurative) whiskers (of animals) [noun] (figurative) antennae (of insects) [noun] (figurative) corn silk Alternative spellings 鬚, 髯

(This term, 髭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Derived terms

References

“^▲髭”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

髭 (eum 자 (ja))

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