髭

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)

1. 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

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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

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹

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• 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): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• 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

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Japanese

Kanji

髭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: ひげ (hige, 髭)

Compounds

• 頬髭(ほおひげ) (hōhige)
• 口髭(くちひげ) (kuchihige)

Noun

髭(ひげ) • (hige) 

1. mustache; beard
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki:

     鬚髻 上栗喩反 頤毛也 倭云加末智乃比偈 又花蘂之本也 髻髪也

2. whisker
   • 1905–06, Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat (text here):

     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.

3. corn silk

Synonyms

• 鬚(ひげ) (hige)

References

• Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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