bìn
hair on temples
Phonosemantic compound. 髟 represents the meaning and 宾 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鬢.
Evolution

Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 鬓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
temples | ||
sideburns | ||
hair on the temples | ||
lit. heads rubbing together (idiom) | ||
a woman's beautiful, thick hair |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3749th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9B13 |
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