髯

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See also: 髥
髯 U+9AEF, 髯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AEF
← 髮
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 髰 →

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

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/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑi̯ɛm/ /ȵʑi̯ɛmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		rán ràn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jim4 jim6
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. * 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

References

Japanese

Kanji

髯

(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
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 髯 – see the following entry.
【ひげ】
(loosely) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks
髯: sideburns, whiskers (cheek hair)
(figurative) whiskers (of animals)
(figurative) antennae (of insects)
(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.
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