biāo
long hair
Depicts a person with long (镸) hair (彡).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p(r)iw | pjiw | biāo | long hair |
*s(ˤ)ram | sraem | shān | long hair |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6066th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+9ADF |
Shuowen | “髟,長髮猋猋也。从長,从彡。” |
Sources
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