Chinese Character Wiki

髭

zī

mustache

Components
髟 meaning component

髟  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

hair

此 sound component

此  Sound component

cǐ

  

this

Evolution

髭 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
髭 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
髭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
髭 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
髭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

髭  

zī

mustache

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4816th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9AED

Shuowen

“頿，口上須也。从須，此聲。”


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