nài, er, ér
whiskers
Phonosemantic compound. 而 represents the sound and 彡 (hair) represents the meaning.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+800F |
Shuowen | “耏，罪不至髡也。从而，从彡。耐，或从寸。諸法度字从寸。” |
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