髯

See also: 髥

髯 U+9AEF, 髯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AEF ← 髮 [U+9AEE] CJK Unified Ideographs 髰 → [U+9AF0]

Translingual

Han character

髯 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹土月 (SHGB), four-corner 7255₇, composition ⿱髟冉)

1. beard
2. mustache

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1453, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45404
• Dae Jaweon: page 1984, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4522, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9AEF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		髯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
那	*naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls
挪	*naːl
娜	*naːlʔ
柟	*noːm, *njam, *njamʔ
抩	*noːm
聃	*n̥ʰaːm, *n̥ʰaːm
舑	*n̥ʰaːm, *njam
坍	*n̥ʰaːm
髯	*njam, *njams
蚺	*njam
呥	*njam
冉	*njam, *njamʔ
袡	*njam
苒	*njamʔ
姌	*njamʔ, *neːmʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rán (ran²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁴, jim⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rán
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rán
    • Wade–Giles: jan²
    • Yale: rán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ran
    • Palladius: жань (žanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jim⁴, jim⁶
    • Yale: yìhm, yihm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁴, jim⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim⁴, yim⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²¹/, /jiːm²²/

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• Middle Chinese: nyem, nyemH

Rime
Character	髯	髯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	汝鹽切	而豔切
Baxter	nyem	nyemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiᴇm/	/ȵiᴇmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɛm/	/ȵiɛmH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjæm/	/ȵʑjæmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵiam/	/ȵiamH/
Li Rong	/ȵiɛm/	/ȵiɛmH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭɛm/	/ȵʑĭɛmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ɛm/	/ȵʑi̯ɛmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rán	ràn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim4	jim6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nam/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njam/, /*njams/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rán
Middle Chinese	‹ nyem ›
Old Chinese	/*nam/
English	whiskers
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	髯	髯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10777	10788
Phonetic component	冉	冉
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	𩓾	染
Old Chinese	/*njam/	/*njams/

Definitions

髯

1. whiskers; beard
2. person with a lot of beard

Compounds

• 一字髯
• 掀髯
• 揚眉奮髯／扬眉奋髯
• 碧眼紫髯
• 禮髯／礼髯
• 美髯公
• 蒼髯／苍髯 (cāngrán)
• 虯髯／虬髯
• 虯髯客／虬髯客
• 虯髯客傳／虬髯客传
• 關羽髯／关羽髯
• 髯口
• 髯毛
• 髯蛇
• 鬚髯如戟／须髯如戟
• 鬢髯如漆／鬓髯如漆

 

References

• “髯”, 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

髯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. sideburns, whiskers (cheek hair)

Readings

• Go-on: ねん (nen)^{←ねむ (nemu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ぜん (zen)^{←ぜむ (zemu, historical)}
• Kun: ひげ (hige, 髯)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
髯
ひげ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

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

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

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

Korean

Hanja

髯 (eumhun 구레나룻 염 (gurenarut yeom))

1. Alternative form of 髥 (“Hanja form^? of 염 (“beard; mustache”).”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]