beard

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
髟 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

須 sound,iconic component

  Sound Iconic component

  

must

Depicts a head with a beard.

Definitions

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beard, whiskers; whisker-like; beard; mustache; feeler (of an insect etc); tassel

Most common words with 鬚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

必须

must

beard

无须

need not

胡须

beard

须知

key information

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C-[s.n]o

sju

beard


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 80.5542% of movies

355th most common character in movies

444th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+9B1A


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