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)

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

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/

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/	/ȵiᴇm^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɛm/	/ȵiɛm^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjæm/	/ȵʑjæm^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵiam/	/ȵiam^H/
Li Rong	/ȵiɛm/	/ȵiɛm^H/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭɛm/	/ȵʑĭɛm^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ɛm/	/ȵʑi̯ɛm^H/
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

whiskers; beard
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

(Hyōgai kanji)

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】	[noun] (loosely) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks [noun] 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))

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]