髯 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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rán

beard

Phonosemantic compound. 髟 represents the meaning and 冉 represents the sound. Simplified form of 髥.

Components

髟 Meaning component

biāo

long hair

冉 Sound component

rǎn

drooping

Definitions

rán

beard; mustache; whiskers

rán

old variant of 髯[rán]

Most common words with 髯

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	髯	beard
	髯口	artificial beard worn by Chinese opera actors

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*nam	nyem	rán	whiskers

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4017th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Unicode	U+9AEF

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