髭

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 髟 + phonetic 此.

Han character

髭 (radical 190 髟+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹卜一心 (SHYMP), four-corner 7211₁)

1. mustache

Related characters

• 鬚

References

• KangXi: page 1453, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45399
• Dae Jaweon: page 1984, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4524, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9AED

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Cantonese

Hanzi

髭 (Yale ji1)

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Japanese

Kanji

髭 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: ひげ (hige)

Noun

髭 (hiragana ひげ, romaji hige)

1. mustache; beard; whisker
   • 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

Synonyms

• 鬚 (ひげ, hige)

References

• 1962 June 19, Rizō Takeuchi, Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 4-4903-0010-7:

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

髭 (pinyin fà (fa4), zī (zi1), Wade-Giles fa⁴, tzu¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

髭 (*tziɛ)